Clarify comment on slave chip select

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 title: TinyOS
 linktitle: tinyos
-parent: TOP
+parent: Home
 ctime: 2009-12-07
 
-Repositories: [tinyos](http://repo/gitweb/?p=tmi/tinyos-2.x.git;a=summary),
+Repositories: [tinyos](/gitweb/?p=tinyos-2.x.git;a=summary),
+[deputy-tinyos](/gitweb/?p=deputy-tinyos.git;a=summary),
+[nesc](/gitweb/?p=nesc.git;a=summary),
 [[aptrepo]].
 
-TMI uses [TinyOS](http://www.tinyos.net) for various data acquisition
-applications, and we maintain a modified tree that supports certain features
-not available in the official tree.  We maintain a
-[repository](http://repo/gitweb/?p=tmi/tinyos-2.x.git;a=summary) containing
-our TinyOS tree, in which we also maintain a cogent patchset against the
-official tree.
+# TMI TinyOS
 
-* Current patchset tag: patchset/2.1.0-3
-* Build from official release tag: tinyos/2.1.0
-* View the patchset [here](http://repo/gitweb/?p=tmi/tinyos-2.x.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/patchset/2.1.0-3).
+TMI maintains a [TinyOS](http://www.tinyos.net) branch containing certain
+features not available in the official tree.  We use this this code for our
+internal and customer development efforts.  TMI enhancements include:
 
-Our TinyOS requires a newer [[msp430]] toolchain.  A complete TinyOS
-development environment including a newer toolchain is available for
-installation from our [[APT repository|aptrepo]].
+* Support for newer [[msp430]] chipsets, such as the MSP430F2618.
+
+* An implementation of the USCI peripheral, supporting UART and SPI
+  communications.  Both SPI slave and master modes are supported, with the
+  driver knowing what to do in slave mode if the master unasserts the slave chip
+  select line.  I2C is working internally and we will be posting it soon.
+
+* Enhanced clock framework supporting parts with the basic_clock+ peripheral
+  and simplifying changing msp430 clock speeds on a per platform or per
+  application basis.
+
+* Support for a number of other chips, including the Silicon Labs
+  [[cp210x]] USB to UART adapters, the Texas Instruments BQ2403x Li Ion/Polymer
+  charge controllers, and the VTI SCP1000-D01 barometric pressure sensor.
+
+* A modularized tos-bsl program that simplifies adding other msp430 boards using
+  different mechanisms to access BSL programming features.  Included is support
+  for boards using the cp2103 and its GPIO pins.
+
+* Support for TMI reference platform design, [[tmicore]].
+
+# About the TMI repository
+
+The TMI TinyOS repository contains code imported from CVS upstream, our internal
+working branches, and tags marking a series of commits that are a each a clean
+patch series of the TMI enhancements against an official upstream release.
+
+* Current patchset tag: `patchset/2.1.1-4.4`
+* Derived from official release tag: `tinyos/2.1.1`
+* The commits between the two above tags represent the series of patches in the
+  [latest patchset](/gitweb/?p=tinyos-2.x.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/patchset/2.1.1-4.4).
+
+The TMI TinyOS code requires a newer [[msp430]] toolchain.
+
+# Using TMI TinyOS
+
+A complete TinyOS development environment including toolchain is available for
+installation from our [[APT repository|aptrepo]].  Since we only use Ubuntu
+workstations for our internal development, we cannot cost justify maintaining
+packages for Windows or other Linux distributions at this time.