> > Does anybody have any suggestions for recommended standard uses for
> > parallel port connected LEDs?
> At one point I had 12 LEDs on parport. LEDs were fast enough to be
> drive at interrupt entry/exit.
> They were:
> Yellow not idle task
> Green interrupt
> " bh
> " pagefault
> Red lowest 4 bits of PID
> Red, low intensity serial i/o
> " network i/o
>
> It actually looked very good. Glow of interrupt led told you
> interrupt load, pid LEDs told you about what kind of load it is
> experiencing (you could tell shell script from make and from
> computation, and if machine hard-died, you at least knew if it was
> interrupt or process context).
Sounds like exactly what we need. If we standardise on something like
the above, we could just have a CONFIG_FRONT_PANEL_MONITOR and ask
people to send in the LED status with bug reports.
> But this kind of blinkenlights needed pretty fast LEDs. (At 486 time
> I decided that parport on ISA is fast enough..)
I'll buy some LEDs and build a parallel port connected LED panel
tomorrow... Do you think the overhead of driving the LEDs would have
too much of a negative effect on system performance? If so, or if we
want more flexibility, maybe we could work out a design for a PCI
card, which could include more than 12 LEDs - 7-segment numeric
displays of pid, etc.
John.
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