[ECOS] idle thread not required

[Peter Niebert]

The idle thread in eCOS as in most systems puts the processor in a low  
energy mode / sleep mode, only to wake up at the next
interrupt.

In theory, you could achieve the same effect in  a scheduler without  
an idle thread, but that would imply that the scheduler would
have to distinguish between no thread ready (idle) and some thread  
ready. The idle thread, always ready, is a smart convenience
allowing to simplify the code of schedulers.

You do not want to get rid of it :-)



Le 4 févr. 10 à 05:16, ganesh kr a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I am using ecos version 3.0.
> I have my own idle thread defined in my application with lowest thread
> priority. Please let me know how can I desable the default idle thread
> present in eCos package? Is there any default idle thread at all? Also
> If assign my application idle thread with priority 0, it does not run.
> Any idea why is like that.
>
> Please provide some inputs.
>
> Regards,
> Ganesh K R
>
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