[ECOS] Virtual interrupts?

[Tom Schouten <tom at zwizwa dot be>]

Hello List,

I'm using an AT91SAM7's PIO IOC interrupts to receive interrupts from an 
external source.
However, there are only 2 interrupt sources of the 32 in total that are 
related to the PIOs:

#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_PIOA        2
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_PIOB        3

Each one needs to handle 32 pins, so to use some of these pins as 
interrupt input some decoding needs to be done (which pin + which edge?) 
before control can be passed to another ISR/DSR.

From my limited knowledge it seems however that it is not possible to 
"fake" an interrupt, i.e.

#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_VIRTUAL0 33
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_VIRTUAL1 34

such that these 33 and 34 vectors can be used in 
cyg_drv_interrupt_create() of some eCos driver.

The reason I'd like to do it this way is to not have to patch drivers 
with an ad-hock trigger mechanism that relies on the GPIO pin decoding 
mentioned above.  I just want to pass one of the virtual interrupts to 
the first argument of cyg_drv_interrupt_create().

My guess is that the suggested virtual interrupt approach above does not 
work.  If so then my question is: Is there a preferred way to do this?

The solution I use now is an ad-hoc mechanism that essentially calls a 
driver's DSR from the DSR of the PIOA or PIOB DSRs but it requires 
driver source modification.  So I'm not asking "can it be done?" but 
"can it be done in a clean way?".

Cheers,
Tom


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