[OLPC Networking] Testing the Wireless driver changes

[Michail Bletsas]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote on 01/17/2008 12:55:47 PM:

> 
> > When it comes to our radio - we *designed it* to start forward frames
> > soon after you initialize it and keep doing it regardless of what the
> > host interface does. 
> 
> In the context of making the radio safe to use on airplanes...
> 
> Does the firmware turn the radio on at boot time?
> 
> Does your "initialize" above mean firmware level or OS level?
> 
> 
> 
Initialize means loading the wireless firmware on the radio's ARM core and 
start running it.

If you want to make sure that the radio never transmits a single bit, then 
preventing that (loading the wireless firmware) is what you need right 
now. There is explicit  mesh start/stop in the plans (already implemented 
in the firmware but not in place yet since the driver people didn't like 
it).

M.