How to mask IRQ

[Thomas Doerfler]

Leon,

I had a look into the mbx8xx BSP irq handler code as an example. At a
first glance I would say, that no API extension would be needed to
achive your functionality, but the current implementation would need
some modifications.

You already have the two calls:

int BSP_install_rtems_irq_handler  (const rtems_irq_connect_data* irq);
int BSP_remove_rtems_irq_handler  (const rtems_irq_connect_data* irq);

and

int BSP_get_current_rtems_irq_handler	(rtems_irq_connect_data* irq);

Currently, I think, it is not yet safe to call
"BSP_remove_rtems_irq_handler" from an ISR, but I think with some
careful tinkering it could be made safe.

Would this be ok for your requirements?

wkr,
Thomas.





leonp at plris.com schrieb:
> On Tuesday, 31 בMay 2005 16:17, Thomas Doerfler wrote:

>>I think the initial request from Leon should be considered, to extend
>>the "new exception processing" API with some means to disable/enable
>>certain interrupt controller inputs either from application level (well,
>>we already have that, I think) or from within an interrupt handler. IMHO
>> it would be nice if any interrupt handler can enable/disable the
>>request input of any other interrupt source, therefore I would recommend
>>not to use a special return value to manage this, but function calls to
>>manage this.
>>
>>Any comments?
> 
> I also think in your stream. And I also should like to have some API function 
> to do this. The only reason that I suggested the return code is, that 
> functions will require intermediate variable, which in turn requires very 
> carefull attitude as it may be changed/restored in two nested calls, while 
> the return value seems to be simple and safe.
> 
> Thanks.


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