Matthias wrote: "summary, extensions to tasker: - sleep(ms) (until time elapsed) - sleepinfinitely() (until interrupt, until another task has finished) - timeout() - code for a timer interrupt - some possibilities to prioritize tasks - if all tasks are sleeping switch to LPM"
and "I have written this from the view of a firmware programmer (not from the theoretical view of a OS programmer). Ok, lets compare my list with the features of SOS or uCOS. Oops, I think I reinvented the wheel. ;-) Make it sense to reinvent the wheel? Maybe making it modular, let the coder only use the parts he really needs..." Hmmm .. the Salvo RTOS does all of this stuff already, and on the MSP430 ... Is anyone intersted in investing the time to do the port? Or does the fact that Salvo is not open-source make it unattractive to the mspgcc community? --Andrew Kalman aek ... at ... pumpkininc ... dot ... com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .