[PATCH 2/3] score: Add Beacon Handler

Ralf Corsepius ralf.corsepius at rtems.org
Tue Oct 16 15:34:06 UTC 2012


On 10/16/2012 04:45 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> A Beacon is a synchronization primitive which helps to solve simple
> request handling by asynchronous mechanisms like interrupts or other
> tasks.  The Beacon is available for every task similar to the Events.

Why is this needed? What is different in comparision to Events?

Openly said, to me this all reads "Greek".

Also, I am not excited to see another "rt-structure" being introduced 
into RTEMS, nobody has missed in RTEMS for the 20 years RTEMS exists.


Ralf







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