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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] waiting for multiple hardware interrupts
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To: Tomas Kalibera <kalibera@domain.hid>
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Tomas Kalibera wrote:
 > Hi Gilles,
 > 
 > thank you for the info. I have additional question: Is it possible to 
 > wait for multiple interrupts without specific kernel support (RTDM 
 > driver or kernel-space IRQ handlers or anything) ? I see that without 
 > kernel support, in native skin, one can in user-space wait for a 
 > specific hardware interrupt using "rt_intr_wait". I need to wait for 
 > multiple interrupts in user space. Do I have to create a dedicated 
 > thread to wait for each interrupt ?

No, there is currently no Xenomai features to allow you to wait for
multiple interrupts from a unique user-space thread without a kernel
module. That said, the rt_event solution could be implemented with
a really minimal kernel module.

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					    Gilles.