I thought there was a desire to send have some of the signals use the fast thread -- but not all of them.
The few that needed the fast thread could be handled every time through the thread. The others could be handled once every N times (where N is the number of them). Regards, Ken John Kasunich wrote: > Kenneth Lerman wrote: >> Why not do the GPIO from the fast thread, but not do all of it every >> time through the thread? If there are 16 GPIOs, do a different one each >> time through the thread. (I seem to remember some stuff on the Lunar >> Module doing things like this.) >> >> In effect, you would be creating a new type of slow thread that was >> synchronized with the fast thread. > > This whole thing started because of a desire to be able to send fast > signals (step pulses or encoder signals) through those GPIO pins. If > each individual pin is only updated every 16th time through the fast > thread, that isn't much different than accessing all of them in the slow > thread. > > > Regards, > > John Kasunich > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers -- Kenneth Lerman Mark Kenny Products Company, LLC 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 888-ISO-SEVO 203-426-7166 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
