On 12 Sep 2003 at 13:00, BRANE wrote: > O.K. I'm not following this thread from beginning, so I don't know exactly > what hardware are we talking about, but for this detail, it probably doesn't > matter much... > > So, what is a solution ? Using external interrupt ? Maybe a bit bulkier > controller with built-in Ethernet ?
1. My recent problem is a timing-related bug when the full datarate is used. It is yet unclear where it comes from, so the solution is also unknown. The lazy workaround is to poll the controller only every 20 ms. Using ISR's brings no advantage compared to this (due to a QDOS-specific shortcoming). 2. Unrelated to this problem, QDOS could use an improvement so ISRs can trigger immediate rescheduling of jobs. Given this improvement, it makes sense to implement the driver with ISR IOT gain a cleaner driver structure. Wether or not this would have the side effect to cure the aforementioned bug is unclear. A hardware change is not required. All the best Peter
