RE: [ECOS] Initialization routines take too long?

[Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Edwards [mailto:grante@visi.com]
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Initialization routines take too long?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:57:05AM -0800, Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> 
> > > It seems that if my first 10ms timer tick occurs before system
> > > initialization is complete, something gets corrupted and the
> > > system crashes in various different ways.
> > 
> > Why should your timer be initialized before everything it needs is
> > initialized?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.  The timer doesn't need anything
> else to be initialized before it is initialized.

I meant that maybe your timer IRQ handler used some classes (Counter, Alarm
maybe...) which constructor had not been called before your handler is
called. 
 
> > Maybe it's a problem in the constructors priority order.
> 
> I think it's more likely a problem with what happens when the
> ARM IRQ is finally enabled.  It appears that the system crashes
> if there is a pending interrupt when that happens.

Strange, that would mean you can't disable and reenable the IRQ without
problem...

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Fabrice Gautier
fabrice_gautier@sdesigns.com