[PATCH 2/3] score: Add Beacon Handler

[Gedare Bloom]

I too would appreciate a little more background for this new feature.

At first blush, it looks like an implementation of a mailbox. Is the
"beacon" name deriving from any source, or is there some other common
name for this pattern of asynchronous notification? How does it differ
from events?

-Gedare

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
> On 10/16/2012 04:45 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Why is this needed? What is different in comparision to Events?
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> Openly said, to me this all reads "Greek".
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> 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.
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> Ralf
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