[ECOS] HAL macros and RTC

[Jonathan Larmour]

Fabrice Gautier wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
>>Subject: Re: [ECOS] HAL macros and RTC
>>
>>
>>The platforms define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_xxx and they are very
>>much platform specific.  CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_RTC is the one 
>>interrupt which must be defined by a platform for the heartbeat
>>clock/timer, thus the platform neutral name.
>>
>>Is this not how you expected it to work?
> 
> 
> Well, I was just suggesting to change the name of the macros, because i got
> confused.
> What make  CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_RTC more platform neutral than say
> CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_UART0 and the others ? 

Just think of it as an exported API of the HAL.

> When I started my port, I listed my interrupt vectors and called them
> CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_xxx, and one of them is for an hardware Clock so i just
> named it CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_RTC. And then everything compiled fine and
> redboot runs, i didnt realized that CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_RTC was more
> special than the other CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_xxx until i tried to do
> multitasking.  

Read the porting documentation then ;-).

Jifl
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