RTOS/MSP432P401R: Using SWI and POSIX together to create an application from examples

Part Number: MSP432P401R

Tool/software: TI-RTOS

Hello Community,

I am trying to get bluetooth notifications on my phone through the Simplelink SDK Explorer. I am following the "simple_application_processor" example (I will list the URL at the bottom of the page).  Inside the example there is a snippet of code that allows notifications to the bluetooth application. I want to modify the code to allow strings to be passed instead of just an increasing number. 

The dillemma that I'm having is that the code example uses POSIX pthread's to do everything. The program that I want to write will use SWI's, Task's and Semaphore's. Is it possible to write from a SWI to a global variable in the main_tirtos.c thread into the simple_application_processor.c thread and update char4 with a corresponding status.

Thank you,

Craig Edwards

dev.ti.com/.../README.html

static void *AP_notifyTask(void *arg0)
{
    sem_init(&notifySem, 1, 0);

    while(1)
    {
        sem_wait(&notifySem);

        /* Set parameter value of char4. If notifications or indications have
           been enabled, the profile will send them. */
        SimpleProfile_SetParameter(SP_CHAR4_ID, sizeof(char4), &char4);

        /* Increment the value of characteristic 4 every 5 seconds. This way
           notification can be more clearly seen on client */
        char4++;
    }
}