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Re: Some newbie questions
>eCos is not a hard real time OS. There is no deadline scheduling, no
>guarantees. Everything it best effort. You do have priorities per
>thread, so you can priorities your CAN bus handler above everything
>else to improve is responce time.
In practice, regardless of the APIs eCos provides, you can put whatever
hardware is connected to the CAN controller on a high-priority interrupt
and disable every other interrupt as soon as you get into that ISR.
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