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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In RTEMS 4.7.1 C User’s Guide, item
“Device Driver Table”, the description of
CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_NEEDS_CLOCK_DRIVER is wrong – the description there
is the one for the CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_NEEDS_CONSOLE_DRIVER.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I checked the on-line version of RTEMS 4.8.99
User’s Guide (<a
href="http://www.rtems.com/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/c_user/c_user00422.html">http://www.rtems.com/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/c_user/c_user00422.html</a>),
and found something worse. This page has TWO descriptions for
CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_NEEDS_CLOCK_DRIVER: the same one (and wrong) described
above, and this one, which I just couldn’t understand:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><code><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>“CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_NEEDS_CLOCK_DRIVER</span></font></code><span
lang=EN-US> is defined when the application does <strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman">NOT</font></b></strong> want the Clock Device Driver and
is <strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">NOT</font></b></strong> using the
Timer Driver. The inclusion or exclusion of the Clock Driver must be explicit
in typical user applications. This is intended to prevent the common user error
of using the Hello World example as the baseline for an application and leaving
out a clock tick source”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>So, if I doesn’t want a Clock Driver, I say to
RTEMS “application needs clock driver”? Sorry, but I’m a
little bit confused here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks in advance and best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Aerospace Electronics Division<br>
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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