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Re: Interrupts don't interrupt?!

From: Ron Oliver <ron_at_forth.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:11:14 -0400

Gerry Thonigs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to use the on-chip usb controller of a coldfire 5485 with an
> axiom cml5485 board and swiftx 3.3.0.

Please ignore my last post. Your version of SwiftX has that change in
it; that was introduced in version 3.2.17.

http://www.forth.com/embedded/version.html

Ron Oliver wrote:
> Leon Wagner wrote:
>> No, the BDM on the ColdFire is non-intrusive. It does not HALT the CPU and only
>> steals an occasional memory cycle to read and write RAM locations. The older
>> BDMs (like the CPU32) would FREEZE or HALT the CPU whenever they were performing
>> I/O. The new CF ones don't do that (much nicer :)
>
> That wasn't always true...
>
> cvs log SwiftX/Src/ColdFire/Bdm.f
> [snip]
> revision 1.5
> date: 2006/03/28 00:09:53; author: leon; state: Exp; lines: +26 -34
> Memory-based XTL parameter passing (no registers, no HALT).

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