On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 21:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 
> [PS: Can I somehow tell mailman to accept my email from multiple
> addresses?]
> 
> hello
>       I'm trying to set "bios classic/dos" like state
>       on the winfast 6300max/sis630 motherboard.
> 
>       one of the issues I'm having is that it seems that
>       interrupt 9 (keyboard)  is not beging tiggered.
>       (this is after linuxbios finish booting and I
>       start bochs bios).
> 
>       Initially I have suspected that the PIC in the sis630
>       is not getting programmed.
> 
>       However, going over boch's bios sources I found out that it
>       does DO program PIC..so it is not the issue here.
>       (relevant code at end of email).
> 
>       Thus the question is :
> 
> What is the extra step I'm missing that has to be run after
> linuxbios finish but before attempting to program PIC for
> bios/dos style interrupt mapping?
> 

I don't quite understand your question, but LinuxBIOS does program
the PIC to map IRQ 0-15 to INT 0x20-0x30. So the keyboard interrupt
(IRQ 1) is routed to INT0x21. This is how Linux does for its interrupt
handling.

Ollie

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