CVS: examples/tasker README.txt,1.1,1.2
Chris Liechti <[email protected]>
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Update of /cvsroot/mspgcc/examples/tasker In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv1695/examples/tasker Modified Files: README.txt Log Message: - consistently name the files README.txt (with extension for the windows users) - update some of the readmes contents and add new ones - use the reStructuredText format for use with docutils rst2html Index: README.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mspgcc/examples/tasker/README.txt,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -w -d -r1.1 -r1.2 --- README.txt 17 Sep 2002 20:06:09 -0000 1.1 +++ README.txt 26 Dec 2005 20:37:03 -0000 1.2 @@ -1,21 +1,26 @@ -what's this ------------ +tasker +====== +Overview +-------- This code is contributed by Bill Knight. + Here is an implementation of a cooperative mutlitasker. This means that a task has to call swap() to change to an other task, but all tasks have their own stack and register set that is swapped in and out. It can start and terminate tasks at run time and works (optionaly) together with the hardware watchdog. -original info +Original info ------------- Just finished up testing the mspgcc port of my cooperative task swapper. I did the testing using Insight and the MSP430 simulator. I haven't moved anything to gnu make yet. It's -still in nmake format like the uart code. +still in ``nmake`` format like the uart code. + ------- + I haven't had time to test this on anything other than the simulator. However, the code base has been around for a lot of years. I just tweaked it for mspgcc. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click