John Kasunich wrote: > Minor nitpick: No other HAL drivers disable interrupts. Linux drivers > may _think_ they are disabling interrupts, but the underlying RTAI > intercepts the cli and sti instructions. RTAI insures that no Linux > thread will run while another Linux thread has interrupts disabled. But > realtime threads can (and do) run while Linux thinks interrupts are > turned off. > Very sharp coding! And, of course, solves a bunch of potential problems.
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