To allow components with a simple need to schedule a few events to not
have to create their own threads, with all the associated memory
overhead, add 2 central calls to get shared normal and an
interrupt-deferral event queues, each dispatched on their own shared
threads.
For non-RTOS systems, just the normal event queue is provided, and the
application would have to dispatch this itself. This
application-dispatch is also available via a config option, to
potentially save memory by reusing the main thread.
Possible future improvement: the ability for separate components to
request a minimum stack size, and have the JSON combine these requests.
(Analogous tooling has already been mooted for mbed TLS config options
like key size).
Added mbed-events from https://github.com/ARMMbed/mbed-events. Changes
from upstream:
- the whole code is licensed under the Apache license. Sources and
headers were updates with this information.
- removed the porting layers for Windows and FreeRTOS and the references
to these porting layers in equeue_platform.h.
- moved the TESTS directory in mbed-events to the TESTS directory of
mbed-os.