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Re: How to recognise that scheduler started.


Motoya Kurotsu <kurotsu@allied-telesis.co.jp> writes:

> Hi, all;
> 
> In my driver code, there is a routine which I would like to use
> both at intialization and after initialization such like in 
> the follwoing manner;
> 
>     routine()
>     {
> 	if (scheduler_started)
> 	    use_kernel_serivices();	// e.g. wait on semaphore
> 	else
> 	    no_use_kernel_serivices();
>     }
> 
> It seems that kernel doesn't provide a grobal variable or an external 
> function which is equivalent to 'scheduler_started' above.
> Is there any way?  Please give me your sugestion.
> 

The simplest approach is probably to just pass the context in as an
argument to the routine. 

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Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
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