systick software dispatch
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Can the SysTick handler be used for dispatching software tasks? I see it cannot be directly specified as a dispatcher in the app macro, but I see a lot of examples use systick-monotonic. Is the monotonic timer different that the software task dispatcher?
The SysTick is an exception handler, they act a bit differently from the interrupts. Interrupts can be pended by setting a bit in a pending register, that is how we use them as dispatchers (pended when a message is to be dispatched/running a task).
You cannot use the SysTick this way, however you can use the SysTick to manually spawn other tasks or pend interrupts (e.g., in periodic fashion).
/Per
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