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Re: Mailboxes - priorities of messages
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Gorjup Matthias <Matthias dot Gorjup at SIEMENS dot AT>
- Cc: "'ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org'" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:29:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Mailboxes - priorities of messages
- References: <BFB6C6946ED8D211B1A60800060DA36906BDD541@GRZS103A>
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:02:32AM +0200, Gorjup Matthias wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are porting a special ethernet driver to eCos and we would need to
> implement prioritozed mailbox messages for communication between threads. Is
> it possible to use priorities for mbox messages? If not, is there some
> workaround or another solution that we could use?
Prioritized could mean many different things. Please could you be more
specific. Are you talking about the threads blocking for access to the
mbox, the messages withing the mbox, or some other priority feature.
Andrew
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