On 4/28/08, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/28/08, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > The FIQ is only lightly used actually, so as not to eat power the bulk > > of the time no FIQs occur. Only when we want to do something like read > > the battery state it runs a timer to cause FIQs. At all other times it > > doesn't hurt if the FIQ source is something different since no timer > > events will come. > > This sounds strange to me. Why do we use FIQ to run a timer when we > have RTC and why is this needed for reading the battery state? I think > this can be solved in other ways.
Sorry, I was misreading. Let me refrase my question: Why do we run a timer to create FIQs? Is this really necessary? -- Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Join the FSF as an Associate Member at: <URL:http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=5774> Free your mind - Open(moko) your phone
