Console driver that needs extra TIMER

[Gedare Bloom]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> On 14/08/14 16:15, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>>
>>> E.g. most of the tests won't even start without modifications. So
>>> >effectively I have to fall back to a polling driver for console if I
>>> >want to run the tests unmodified, or is there any mechanism to generally
>>> >increment the amount of timers for all tests?
>>
>> I don't think so. There are some BSP hooks for various features and
>> default number
>> of termios ports. But nothing specific to an object.
>>
>> I suppose one could be added but for orthogonality, it would make me
>> wonder
>> why we wouldn't also let you add a BSP factor on every Classic API object.
>> Just thinking out load.
>
>
> Its not only a BSP factor.  It is also a per driver factor.  Since the
> console and clock drivers are optional if you make it only BSP specific,
> then you have to overestimate.
>
Ah, that is a good point. The drivers that get used by the application
should be determining the configuration requirements?
-Gedare

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