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Re: MPC860: quicc_smc_serial_driver change
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: nprasad3 at gmu dot edu
- Cc: eCos patches <ecos-patches at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: 07 Jan 2004 16:00:12 -0700
- Subject: Re: MPC860: quicc_smc_serial_driver change
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <8f26490833.908338f264@gmu.edu>
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 13:18, nprasad3@gmu.edu wrote:
> >
> > Why do you want to add polling mode to an interrupt-driven driver?
> >
> I am making an *assumption* here that the person who wrote the
> driver intended it to be in polling mode if BUF_SIZE = 0 (all
> interrupt related code gets left out if thats the case including
> installing the interrupt vector).
Possibly (I wrote the driver), but probably long since discarded
as a useful mode.
>
> I started with the polling mode driver as I thought it would be
> easy to get it going on my target first.
What is there to get going? This is all common 860/QUICC stuff,
and there shouldn't need to be any platform specifics required.
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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates