On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:06:01PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 06:03:27PM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > > The package will generate a tinyos-source binary > > package. > > What exactly does the package do? Does it download the current > upstream source and builds it for deployment? No. The source is included in the package. Similar to the linux-source package. > What's the advantage of having this as a package in Debian? Can it be > used for something on a running Debian system? In short: The package is needed for developing TinyOS based applications for small embedded devices as found in sensor networks. A bit more descriptive: TinyOS is not like a normal operating system. As mentioned in the description it's intended to be used on very small devices. Since these have very little memory/processing power a normal operating system kernel (e.g. Linux) cannot be used on them. The solution of TinyOS is having a very small operating system, which is statically linked together with the user written software into one big binary. This binary is then uploaded to the microcontroller. -- Sebastian
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