Development Plan Proposal for Unifying Interrupt and PCI APIs

[Steve Holle]

At 08:36 AM 10/25/2004, Eric Valette wrote:
>Steve Holle wrote:
>
>>My suggestion would be to hide the hardware and provide the thinnest 
>>interface possible on the RTEMS side.
>
>The problem is that RTEMS just come from here and this is not sufficient 
>to provide any kind of interrupt prioritization which has been identified 
>as a requirement during last poll...

Isn't interrupt prioritization very hardware specific?  Add a priority 
parameter and let the bsp handle it.  Should the differences between an 
8259 and Coldfire interrupt priority scheme be incorporated into RTEMS?


>-- eric

Steve Holle
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