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Re: C API for timer and watchdog
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Cc: 'Sam Sortais' <sams at myself dot com>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 19:00:26 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] C API for timer and watchdog
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <000801c17f50$30a6bef0$090110ac@TRENT>
"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
>
> How hard would it be to add this functionality in to redboot? I imagine
> it wouldn't be that difficult right? This would be a nice feature for
> testing purposes.
Well, one way to do it now would be for the application to reset the board
when it terminates.
But yes it is a bit difficult due to the way the exception stack gets
reused. We've been talking about this internally just recently in fact -
the fact it works from the GDB stub is a bit of a fluke actually.
Jifl
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