Re: sharing data (can ISR be pre-empted???)

[Eric BEGOT <eric_begot@xxxxxxxx>]

Ed Co wrote:

> You seem to be contradicting here. If ISR does not
> have a context then how can it get preempted by a
> kernel thread(on 2.6 or anywehere else???) Are you
> talking about the Timesys kernel here; they have
> changed the kernel to run an ISR in a process context.
> In such a case you can preempt the ISR but on regular
> kernels this is not possible.
>  
Yes i said i made a mistake :) ISR cannot be preempted.


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