[Olsr-dev] olsrd on batteries WAS: changing 'linux' macro to __linux__ or __gnu_linux__

[Jeremy Lakeman]

We have run a cheap Huawei ideos phone, in flight mode (so no GSM
radio), with the screen off, in adhoc mode running BATMAN, for 11
hours before the phone turned off to save the rest of its battery.

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
> My skills are more taking existing things like gnupg or olsrd and making
> them as easy as possible for anyone to use.  I don't know a lot about
> the guts of olsrd or the details of the IETF standard, so I don't have
> much to say about that stuff.
>
> As for olsrd on battery powered devices, we are aware that's it pretty
> limited, but I hope to have some time to try to address those issues.
> We currently don't expect more than a few hours of time on an Android
> phone.  The core idea is to allow people to get internet when all else
> fails, or say, your govt' has shut down the internet.
>
> .hc
>
> On 02/03/2012 01:07 PM, Teco Boot wrote:
>> Hi hc,
>>
>> It is good news that commotion took olsrd as candidate mesh protocol.
>> Maybe you didn't know, but some of us have a goal to push olsrd towards
>> IETF olsrv2. Henning (and others?) did already much work. But there is
>> more to do.
>>
>> Another topic is advancing the link metrics. We have ETX and we know we
>> can do better. olsrv2 has metrics support, so better go for this first.
>>
>> I am a bit concerned on running olsr on a battery powered device. What
>> are your expectations?
>>
>> Thanks, Teco
>
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