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authorEmil Fresk <emil.fresk@gmail.com>2020-11-12 18:42:07 +0100
committerEmil Fresk <emil.fresk@gmail.com>2020-11-12 18:42:07 +0100
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Software tasks can also be assigned priorities and, under the hood, are
dispatched from interrupt handlers. RTIC requires that free interrupts are
-declared in an `extern` block when using software tasks; some of these free
+declared in the `dispatchers` app argument when using software tasks; some of these free
interrupts will be used to dispatch the software tasks. An advantage of software
tasks over hardware tasks is that many tasks can be mapped to a single interrupt
handler.
Software tasks are also declared using the `task` attribute but the `binds`
-argument must be omitted. To be able to spawn a software task from a context
-the name of the task must appear in the `spawn` argument of the context
-attribute (`init`, `idle`, `task`, etc.).
+argument must be omitted.
The example below showcases three software tasks that run at 2 different
priorities. The three software tasks are mapped to 2 interrupts handlers.