Re: Read/Modify/Write Concurrency control on Mainstone III BSP missing?

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Maybe we need to establish an independent board of CE experts to truly
certify a BSP as PQ so that the label truly means production quality.
Sounds like a good idea to me. But it should apply to Linux and other OSs as
well. From my experience the BSP support from silicon and OS vendors is
never up to what I call production quality. This is why we built up our
re-usable BSP framework. Aside from simplifying the re-use of code it
correctly handles threading issues in a consistent manner through out so
that even if we missed something accidentally it's easy to fix.

We'd put it out there as a real product for others to use but find that the
overwhelming number of companies we encountered refuse to pay a royalty of
any sort for software bits. It costs WAY too much money to create something
like that to give it away. I suspect this is why the OS and silicon vendors
don't put all the effort into them that is really needed to make something
truly production quality. (Often times the hardware ref boards from the
silicon vendors is so far from production quality itself that there's not
much point in putting in the effort for the software.)



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Steve Maillet
EmbeddedFusion
www.EmbeddedFusion.com
smaillet at EmbeddedFusion dot com


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