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TIMMOSAL

_Ralph_
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Does anyone know what TIMMOSAL is?

I see it in the OMX directory but can't work out what its purpose is. It is referred to in the makefile for the decode_display demo too. I can't find any documentation on it.

Thanks,
Ralph

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    TI__Intellectual 2910 points

    Ralph,

     

    TIMMOSAL stands for TI MultiMedia Operating System Abstraction Layer. Usage of Semaphores, Tasks, Events, Memory and other OS calls are abstracted by this layer. Currently it supports DSP/BIOS for the DSP and Linux. You can see it being used by the VLPB component on the DSP and by OMTB on A8/Linux.

    Earlier versions of decode_display used to leverage TIMMOSAL, but was dropped in favour of directly using Linux OS calls. Looks like we missed cleaning this up. We will look at documenting TIMMOSAL as well going forward. Thanks for pointing these out.

     

    Archith

  • 0 in reply to Archith John Bency
    Expert 2900 points

    TIMM_OSAL_ functions can still be found in the OMX examples such as decode, encode. It should be  updated as the decode_display example.