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Re: timer functions for non-kernel
> From what I see the kernel API vs. drv API distinction is this: use threads
> or don't.
> Kernel requires at least the timer interrupt for scheduling the threads,
> but drv_api does not imply lack of interrupts, just lack of threads.
Im not sure this is true. It will happily schedule threads without a
timer interupt, but it will not time slice threads which are running
with the same priority. In many systems you don't actually need time
slicing.
Andrew