Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ezio Anselmo Mazarim Fernandes" <> | Subject | Re: Today Linus redesigns the networking driver interface (was Re: tulip driver in ...) | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 20:48:17 -0300 |
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De: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> >The trouble is that on the x86, disabling just some interrupts means >you have to talk to the interrupt controller, which is excessively >slow.
why not put the irq that you want to disable redirected to irq_disabled in the idt_table and restore to the original when enabled.
irq_disabled: iret (or something like that :)
PS: Sorry for my too bad english and if what i say is too stupid.
Ezio Anselmo Mazarim Fernandes Computer Science - Brazil
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