Q: Adding WDT support.

[erik.ivanenko at utoronto.ca (erik.ivanenko)]

Quality Quorum wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, erik.ivanenko wrote:
>
> > I have the pc386 BSP running on an ACER PIA-632.  This uses a 386sx-40
> > clone chip.  It is an embeddable device, that sits in an ISA backplane,
> > and has floppy and hd controller ports among other things.  It uses the
> > AMI bios, and is completely PC compatible ( as far as I can tell ).
> >
> > It does however, include a watchdog timer ( WDT ) , which makes it
> > different from a PC.  The WDT
> > is supposed to be initialized at the beginning of the application code
> > proper, and reset periodically during the application. It is required
> > ONLY by the application.
> >
> > My question is:
> >
> > Where should I locate the WDT control source code?  It does not belong
> > in the pc386 BSP, as the existence of the WDT is specific to the
> > acer-pia-632.  It seems silly to copy the pc386 BSP code just to make
> > another BSP that includes the WDT control library -- as applications may
> > not even use the WDT!
> >
> > Should a new BSP be created, or should  the optional WDT control library
> > be included with pc386?
>
> I see two options: either make it a part of (supposedly new) BSP (1) or
> make it into some sort of app library(2).
>
> I favor option (2): once we would start to put junk into BSP proper
> code we wll never stop and it will soon become unmantainable.
>
> I propose to create directory say 'collection' under libbsp/i386,
> where one can put processor specific application code, which is
> not compiled automatically but can be copied into application space
> as desired.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aleksey

  What about libchip?
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