[En-Nut-Discussion] arm port (RFC: Changing ARM mode)
Alain M.
alainm at pobox.com
Tue Jan 13 19:39:25 CET 2009
Rocendo Bracamontes del toro escreveu:
>
> void NutSleep (uint32_t ms)
> {
> ENTRY_KERNEL_MODE(); // change mode to supervisor when applicable
>
> ..... code execute at kernel level here ....
>
> EXIT_KERNEL_MODE(); exit supervisor mode, enter user mode when
> applicable
> }
I am no expert in the matter, but in my undertanding this is not very
good. The problem is that SWI is a CALL, not a command has one parameter
for the function and parametters have to be fetch from the user stack.
This calls for an entire different achitecture.
Alain
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