Re: int 0x40

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Raman S wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> >   I relatively new to the kernel and am trying to understand how the linux
> > kernel handles interrupts. For this I attempted to

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> 
> The IRQ setup code is probably overwriting it.  You'll need to make the
> code in i8259.c skip over vector 0x40 as well as SYSCALL_VECTOR (0x80).
> 
> --
> 
> 				Brian Gerst

Yes. It looks like this is what is happening.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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