Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: How to cleanup the timer queues (kill process) on T80x
Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Date: 17 Jul 1997 12:45:12 +0200
Message-ID: <y4vi2agdon.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

mueller@NoSpam130.83.24.72 writes:

> The problem is: how to clean up the timer Qs. I can use the same method as
> for the scheduler Qs. Most times this works fine. But I found no way to
> update the TimerNextRegs if necessary and I do not know when the transputer
> moves a process from the timer Q to the scheduler Q.

On processors before the T9000, you cant, reliably, as the internal registers
are inaccesible.

	Jan