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From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: Bart Veer <bartv@cygnus.co.uk>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Ethernet and Serial drivers for Linux target?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991111114526.B29982@visi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199911111737.RAA02373@sheesh.cygnus.co.uk>

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:37:29PM +0000, Bart Veer wrote:

> It may be better to look at syscall-i386-linux-1.0.S in the synthetic
> target HAL sources. 

I've browsed through there already, and that looks like a good
starting point.

> Note that if you want more realistic device driver behaviour, with
> interrupts etc.,

Naturally one would.

> then you will want to experiment with asynchronous I/O, SIGIO
> signals, etc. 

Never done async I/O before, never done direct system calls before,
been using eCOS for two weeks.  I'm practically an expert.

> If an eCos thread performs a blocking Linux read() syscall then you
> will block the entire eCos application, which is probably not what
> you want.

Of course not.

> Of course this makes the problem a bit more challenging :-)

If was easy everybody could do it, and then how could I walk around
feeling so superior?

-- 
Grant

      reply	other threads:[~1999-11-11  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-10 12:38 [ECOS] " Grant Edwards
1999-11-10 16:40 ` Gary Thomas
1999-11-11  4:44 ` [ECOS] " Bart Veer
1999-11-11  9:10 ` [ECOS] " Jonathan Larmour
1999-11-11  9:23   ` Grant Edwards
1999-11-11  9:32     ` Gary Thomas
1999-11-11  9:39       ` Grant Edwards
1999-11-11  9:37     ` [ECOS] " Bart Veer
1999-11-11  9:45       ` Grant Edwards [this message]

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