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16 years ago

Nested interrupts again

Hello Linux masters, I need to make a small patch inside uClinux kernel for NIOS2. I need to enable one specific IRQ to have absolute priority over all atomic processes running in Linux - over ...
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jan @ Sep 9 2009, 12:40 PM) <{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=23792)</div>

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the HDL component is blackbox[/b]

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Supposedly a management decision rather than a technical issue ?

That is really not an adequate way of working with NIOS, as it dumps any benefit this system offers. If you can&#39;t work together with the "hardware" designers, there is no decent help for this project.

But if you can add a second CPU in SOPC-Builder, using SOPC-Builder you also can add your own hardware component with an Avalon master interface that accesses the existing "black box" component via the bus (i.e. a kind of DMA controller).

-Michael