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RE: C API for timer and watchdog
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- To: "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "'Sam Sortais'" <sams at myself dot com>,<ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:42:59 -0700
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] C API for timer and watchdog
Actually yes, that's not a bad way of doing it. Resetting should work
well. I should have thought of that myself, but my head isn't in the
game at the moment, I'm busy doing other things. :)
Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlarmour@cambridge.redhat.com
> [mailto:jlarmour@cambridge.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Larmour
> Sent: December 7, 2001 12:00 PM
> To: Trenton D. Adams
> Cc: 'Sam Sortais'; ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] C API for timer and watchdog
>
>
> "Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> >
> > How hard would it be to add this functionality in to
> redboot? I imagine
> > it wouldn't be that difficult right? This would be a nice
> feature for
> > testing purposes.
>
> Well, one way to do it now would be for the application to
> reset the board
> when it terminates.
>
> But yes it is a bit difficult due to the way the exception stack gets
> reused. We've been talking about this internally just
> recently in fact -
> the fact it works from the GDB stub is a bit of a fluke actually.
>
> Jifl
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