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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Brown
50810955e9 [console] Call cpu_nap() only if there is no input waiting
Avoid calling cpu_nap() until after we have determined that there is
no input ready to read.  This avoids delaying for one timer interrupt
(~50ms) in the case of

  if ( iskey() )
     char = getkey()

which happens to be present in monojob.c, which is where we spend most
of our time looping (e.g. during any download).

This should eliminate the irritating tendency of gPXE to lose
keypresses.

Discovered on a Dell system where the serial port seems to send in a
constant stream of 0xff characters; this wouldn't be a problem in
itself except that each one triggers the 50ms delay (as mentioned
above), which really kills performance.
2008-06-11 12:06:10 +01:00
Michael Brown
dad5274522 Add "name" field to struct device to allow human-readable hardware device
names.

Add "dev" pointer in struct net_device to tie network interfaces back to a
hardware device.

Force natural alignment of data types in __table() macros.  This seems to
prevent gcc from taking the unilateral decision to occasionally increase
their alignment (which screws up the table packing).
2007-01-10 04:22:09 +00:00
Michael Brown
b6def29f2b Keep running the main processing loop while waiting for input. 2006-12-27 22:59:40 +00:00
Michael Brown
0e494614b5 Some versions of doxygen seem to object to "@ret None" or similar. 2005-05-24 00:11:25 +00:00
Michael Brown
bf32da87f0 Doxygenation 2005-05-20 10:24:11 +00:00
Michael Brown
3e5bf5fb06 console.c uses the generic table mechanism 2005-04-27 11:38:43 +00:00
Michael Brown
0ff80b477d Merged mcb30-realmode-redesign back to HEAD 2005-04-08 15:01:17 +00:00