Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:50:51 +0530 | From | Gaurav Dhiman <> | Subject | Re: IRQ vector assignment for system call exception |
| |
yes, definetely a historical reason. System libraries need to know this vector to invoke system call.
-Gaurav
On 12/8/05, yen <yen@eos.cs.nthu.edu.tw> wrote: > Hi: > I have a quwstion. Why the number 128 is reserver for system call exception in > interrupt vectors? Why not other numbers? Are there any historical reasons? > thanks. > > -- > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
-- - Gaurav my blog: http://lkdp.blogspot.com/ -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |