Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Porting Gnuradio-Applications to UHD. The right moment to switch to the new USRP Firmware

[Johnathan Corgan]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 15:08, Moeller <address@hidden> wrote:

>  I wonder if it is time now for switching to the new UHD Firmware.
> It is declared as "alpha", but it seems that for new code now, the UHD
> should be the preferred API.

> The problem is, what to do with the old applications? They are all made
> for the old API model. So, switching to UHD on the USRP side make them
> all unusable, right?  Or, will there still be support for the old API with 
> bridging functions?

At a certain point of UHD stability (for a reasonable definition of
stability), we'll start migrating GNU Radio example and utility
applications to start using gr-uhd instead of gr-usrp/gr-usrp2.  This
will be done on the 'next' branch, which is where API-breaking code
development happens, and will find it's way into the 3.4 release
series.

The example code changes to use UHD/gr-uhd will also serve as good
documentation on what's necessary to do for end-user scripts.

Johnathan