On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:20:40PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 05:09:38PM +0800, Feng, Libo wrote: > > X86 architecture processor has an IDT to distribute the coming > > interrupts. I only found the default initialization of IDT in > > /src/arch/i386/lib/c_start.S. I thought that after device > > enumeration, the IDT also needs to be updated according to the > > enumeration result. Unfortunately, I can't find where the code is > > located. Who could give me a clue? Thank you in advance. > > I don't think LB or FILO drives any hardware using interrupts, so no > idt is needed. > > Once Linux kicks in, it will set up everything it needs.
Is that also true for all other payloads? Think Windows or OpenBSD or Plan9 etc... Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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