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:Hi,
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:At 05:48 11/12/2006, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>[...]The idea is to be able to do an end-run around systems with broken
:> interrupt routing by instituting adaptive polling. Basically all
:> devices that can produce events are polled at some reasonable minimum
:> rate, say 50hz. When polled, the device returns an indication as to
:> whether it processed any new events or not. [etc]
:
:Your problem will be with devices (if any exist) that don't give sane
:status unless they think they have interrupted. If designers can get
:the interrupt path wrong, they can get that wrong too.
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:Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243
Fortunately only the ATA hardware suffers from this particular problem.
All other hardware I've ever come across has a reliable status register
of some sort.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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