Subject: Re: options "BLINK" in config file for kernel?
To: Valentin Pepelea <valentin@netcom.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/22/1999 17:53:54
On Jan 22, Valentin Pepelea wrote
> You are both wrong. The _correct_ behavior is to see the LED blink fast in all
> cases, but with a higher percentage ON times in high CPU usage cases. This
> would result in the LED being rather faint in cases of low CPU usage, and
> bright in cases of high CPU usage.
>
> A simple implementation is to have the idle task turn on the LED when it is
> switched in, and off when it is switched out... if there is such a thing as an
> idle task in BSD.
>
> I hope this resolves the LED issue once and for all. :-)
>
I like the idea, but I'm not sure this is that simple to implement.
I still want my led to blink even when the CPU idle time is 0 or 100%.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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