Re: [ECOS] ecos idle function

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Milind Kopikare wrote:
> Hi,
>     In eCos, Andrew Lunn's code should work if in idle
> time we shift to the idle_thread_main function in
> thread.cxx. But, whenever the processor is idling, the
> code dosent jump there. For want of other tasks to do,
> the processor hangs.
If the code doesn't jump to the idle thread when nothing else needs doing, 
there is something very wrong.

> i have got around this by
> creating my own idle task function in my code which
> takes over whenever nothing else is going on. but
> would appericiate if someone could fill me in on how
> ecos idle functions can get activated. is there any
> particular variable I would need to define to start
> this idle task?  
The idle thread is just a thread that loops doing nothing. For some HALs 
they define a macro HAL_IDLE_THREAD_ACTION which will be some piece of 
code to run, often to put the processor into some stop or halt state. This 
is true for i386 and v850 at least.

Jifl
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