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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:15:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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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

[SNIPPED...]
> 
> 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

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.


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