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Re: Is it possible to do polling for the Ethernetdriverusing a stack ?
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 02:06, NavEcos wrote:
> This is a bit off topic, but would it be possible to get polling to work with
> RedBoot?
>
What do you mean? RedBoot only works via polling.
> The reason I ask is that I thought it might be useful to make a CDL option to
> create a task that polls the ethernet device, but I recall that RedBoot is a
> single thread so that it wouldn't work as a debug port.
This isn't all that hard to do. Look at the CS8900 ethernet
driver. It can be configured to have a background thread
which polls instead of using interrupts (because some of the
early Cirrus Logic boards had broken interrupt support).
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