[U-Boot-Users] Do we enable Interrupts in U-Boot?

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Tue Jan 8 14:27:56 CET 2008


On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Chetan Nanda wrote:
> In that case there must be some threads that continuously check for
> pending requests from UART, ETHERNET or so ..

Threads? U-Boot is not an full blown OS. No threads are needed in this 
bootloader.

> But I don't find any sort  of threading inside u-boot code

U-Boot "sits" there and waits for some input from the console, or for an 
ethernet reply packet. This can be done using polling without any performance 
penalty.

Best regards,
Stefan

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