Re: Getting started with bare-board development

[Adam Jensen <hanzer@riseup.net>]

On 11/14/2016 03:11 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> If it were me, I'd set up the test harness with some kind of event queue
> that would allow scheduling i/o completions, interrupts etc. to happen
> at specified timestamps in the future.  Then when you run the test, only
> the time ticks where something happens would get executed, without the
> idle ticks causing any delays in the test.  The idea is you want your
> tests to be fast even if the system being simulated is much slower.
> That lets you run the tests more frequently, which is a good thing.

Hi Paul, thanks for the hints. I'll probably need to continue my myopic
crawl through the LRM and the [(tragically) poorly written] Ada
programming textbooks before I can understand the implications and
subtleties of what you're suggesting. I think the consensus is that I
need to develop more information and understanding.