[En-Nut-Discussion] RFC: Idle Thread Callback

[Matthias Ringwald]

.. or even less fancy stuff like just putting the CPU into sleep :)

(If I remember correctly, we did this on the AVR with the BTnodes)

Cheers,
 Matthias

On 17.06.2012, at 20:33, Ole Reinhardt wrote:

> Hi Harald,
> 
>> Both modification might be interesting not only for the AVR platform.
>> But instead of adding more and more patches, I'd suggest to completely
>> remove them all and instead allow the application to register an idle
>> callback.
> 
> Very good idea. This would allow e.g. other interesting additions like
> dynamic clock adaption based on the CPU usage to save energy.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Ole
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