Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] m-block timeouts, time passed

[George Nychis]

David Li wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> I browsed through cmac.cc and got a few questions: 
>
> 1. Can you explain more about "Without m block to gr block connection,
> all raw samples are forced thru the MAC layer"?

Ahhh I need to change that comment.  That comment is no longer true. 
The samples hit the PHY first, and the PHY sends the MAC a bit stram.

> 2. What kind of applications are needed to interface with your MAC code
> to do CS configuration and data transfer/receive? 

Right now there is nothing to actually connect with the TCP/IP stack. 
The test applications are GNU Radio applications.

> 3. What are those PMT related macros? Perhaps it's easier if there
> exists documentations explaining the current mblock implementation.  

Right... the PMT is a polymorphic type that was implemented in GNU Radio 
to simplify data passing in the m-blocks.  It's not actually in any of 
the m-block documentation.  I think this is documentation that would be 
extremely beneficial.  I will write up some documentation on PMT in the 
GNU Radio wiki and send out a link tonight or tomorrow.

- George