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Re: multiplexor and legOS
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:12:22 GMT
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#include <sys/time.h>
void systime_set_timeslice (unsigned char slice);
include/sys/time.h:43-45:
#ifdef CONF_TM
#define TM_DEFAULT_SLICE 20 file://!< default multitasking timeslice
#endif
hope that helps,
Albert
"Michael J Ash" <mikeash@csd.uwm.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.OSF.3.96.1020204011226.17362A-100000@alpha3.csd.uwm.edu...
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Mark Falco wrote:
>
> > well anyone who looked at the code I attached may have notcied that I • had one
> > of the msleeps commented out. Oops, with this now uncommented I at • least see
> > the second and third light sensors pulse on, but only for an extremely • short
> > time. Suring the 1s sleep that follows selecting the port it is the 1st • light
> > sensor that is always lit. Any thoughts would still be appreciated, • if/when I
> > figure it out I'll be sure to post what I was doing wrong. I've now got • a
> > rotation sensor hooked up to a regular sensor port and am using it to • vary the
> > pulse length :)
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> Don't ask me for a cite, but I seem to remember something about msleep
> only having 20ms granularity. If that's the case, your msleep(10) is
> either not sleeping at all or is sleeping 20ms, either one of which could
> cause problems.
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> I'd suggest at the very least verifying your timing using sys_time in the
> code. If msleep indeed isn't accurate enough, then you could make some
> kind of busy-waiting loop.
>
> --
> "From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon.
> And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go." -- Jim Lovell
>
> Mike Ash - <http://www.mikeash.com/>, <mailto:mail@mikeash.com>
>
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