From fae9d83732a754e273524705fbda7dea41b3e2d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Corsepius Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:34:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?2007-05-09=09Ralf=20Cors=C3=A9pius=20?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * porting/miscellaneous.t: Remove subsection on "Optional Endian Conversion Routines", CPU_HAS_OWN_HOST_TO_NETWORK_ROUTINES. --- doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/porting/miscellaneous.t | 32 -------------------------------- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 279af5b8c3..66df517bfa 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-05-09 Ralf Corsépius + + * porting/miscellaneous.t: Remove subsection on "Optional + Endian Conversion Routines", CPU_HAS_OWN_HOST_TO_NETWORK_ROUTINES. + 2007-04-05 Joel Sherrill * user/example.texi: Change all obsoleted CONFIGURE_TEST_NEEDS_XXX diff --git a/doc/porting/miscellaneous.t b/doc/porting/miscellaneous.t index 38162f8969..5a7d482fe8 100644 --- a/doc/porting/miscellaneous.t +++ b/doc/porting/miscellaneous.t @@ -57,38 +57,6 @@ set on a processor family that is big endian. #define CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN FALSE @end example -@subsection Optional Endian Conversion Routines - -In a networked environment, each program communicating must agree on the -format of data passed between the various systems in the networked -application. Routines such as @code{ntohl()} -and @code{htonl()} are used to convert -between the common network format and the native format used on this -particular host system. Although RTEMS has a portable implementation of -these endian conversion routines, it is often possible to implement these -routines more efficiently in a processor specific fashion. - -The @code{CPU_HAS_OWN_HOST_TO_NETWORK_ROUTINES} is set to TRUE when the port -provides its own implementation of the network to host and host to network -family of routines. This set of routines include the following: - -@itemize @bullet -@item @code{ntohl()} -@item @code{ntohs()} -@item @code{htonl()} -@item @code{htons()} -@end itemize - -The following example illustrates how this macro should be set when the -generic, portable implementation of this family of routines is to be used -by this port: - -@example -#define CPU_HAS_OWN_HOST_TO_NETWORK_ROUTINES FALSE -@end example - -@section Extra Stack for MPCI Receive Thread - The @code{CPU_MPCI_RECEIVE_SERVER_EXTRA_STACK} macro is set to the amount of stack space above the minimum thread stack space required by the MPCI Receive Server Thread. This macro is needed because in a multiprocessor