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Subject: Re: Proposal for boosted Symb device support
From: Marty Kraimer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:02:18 -0600
Benjamin Franksen wrote:

> Anyway: I'd rather have the Symb support with semaphore protection than
> with no protection at all.

Jeff Hill wrote:

> Sorry to nit pick, I obviously was not thinking about your unique situation. I Agree that
> if the user is changing the variable from the shell or any other task level program
> that does not use the mutex semaphore then at least taskLock() will be required,
> and that if ISRs are involved then intLock() will be required to solve both problems.
> If multiple processors and also interrupts are involved then a global solution may
> prove to be elusive. I still worry that an exception might occur while intLock() is applied,
> but perhaps this risk is worth taking in order to allow unconstrained synchronized
> access to globally known variables.

Ok it sounds like there are no strong objections to intLock/intUnlock.


Benjamin can you make and test the changes?

Marty Kraimer

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Re: Proposal for boosted Symb device support Benjamin Franksen
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RE: Proposal for boosted Symb device support Jeff Hill
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