[ixp1200] communication between SA and ME

[Shyamal Pandya]

The resource manager polls all the ME to core rings at regular intervals. A 
look at the thread.c file in the src/microace/common/resource_manager/driver 
directory will help.

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>From: Li Zhao <zhao at cs.ucr.edu>
>Reply-To: ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU
>To: <ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU>
>Subject: [ixp1200] communication between SA and ME
>Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:17:06 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know how the Microengine pass
>the exceptional packets to the StrongARM?
>If we use Resource Manager in MicroACE, there is a ring
>buffer between them and the Microengine puts
>data into it. How does the Resource manager
>know there is a packet in the buffer? by
>polling or interrupt?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>--
>Li Zhao
>Dept. of Computer Science
>Univ. of California, Riverside
>Tel:1-909-787-2001
>


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