On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:25:17AM -0500, Douglas Geiger wrote: > > The details on all of this still need to be flushed out, but this is > > the basic idea. > > > > To all: > > > > * Do you think that this would allow you to easily build MACs or other > > packet based things in GNU Radio? Assume the USRP and USRP2 blocks > > are doing something sensible about the new attributes. > > > > * Do you think you could build what you desire on top of these extensions? > > > > * Any other comments, questions, yeah-but's... > > > > Eric > > > > I'm not working on MAC's at the moment (or more accurately, my work > right is only concerned with receiving packets, not sending), but > certainly being able to pass along the metadata would be a nice feature. > For the moment, I'm able to do what I want with my afore-mentioned > custom source block (where only the source block has access to the > timestamps), but I can see situations (in the future) in which I'd like > to have that info passed along through the flowgraph.
Thanks for the data point. > I recall some discussion with the m-block's being concerned with the > performance of the PMT data types - can you address that? Has that been > resolved/can resolved via some technique/won't be an issue with next > year's CPU's/etc.? We've got some performance patches to apply and beyond that will do what it takes to ensure good performance for the PMT types. Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
