Per-BSP confdefs (or resource allocation)

[Isaac Gutekunst]

On 10/22/2015 01:33 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
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> On 21/10/15 21:53, Isaac Gutekunst wrote:
>> Hi Devel,
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>> I looked for a while, but couldn't find a way to specify what resources (semaphores, tasks,
>> etc) a BSP requires for an empty project (empty Init function).
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> There is no useful support for this and this is a constant source of problems.
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> One way out of this situation would be to use self-contained objects for the drivers.
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>> I took a look at this page:
>> https://docs.rtems.org/doc-current/share/rtems/html/bsp_howto/Initialization-Code-The-RTEMS-Configuration-Table.html
>> but couldn't glean the correct method.
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>> What is the preferred way to do so?
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>> Our BSP uses a number of resources for hardware drivers, including UART, CAN, SPI, I2C and
>> Ethernet.
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> In case an empty project includes all these drivers, then something is wrong with this BSP.
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That's good to know. Is it advisable to have all the drivers disabled by default? Of course, at 
minimum a BSP needs a console driver.

Our console driver does use one task, and one or more mutexes. Is this something we should try 
hard to change?