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Re: On Alarms...
- From: davidw at dedasys dot com (David N. Welton)
- To: Milind Kopikare <milindkopi at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 22 Jan 2003 10:35:56 -0800
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] On Alarms...
- References: <20030122182030.6300.qmail@web10504.mail.yahoo.com>
Milind Kopikare <milindkopi@yahoo.com> writes:
> 1> Are Alarms like interrupts? If so, what's the priority? I've been
> using Alarms and they seem to stop even the highest of priority
> tasks. But just curios on how it's implemented internally. Is there
> a more comprehensive doc to read up on this.
>From my reading of Anthony Massa's book (Embedded Software Development
with eCos), I get the impression that they are run at the DSR level.
The book is a good reference, but to be sure, read the code itself.
In most cases it's pretty clear.
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