Re: Kernels 2.1 with 386DX/387 IRQ13 PC boxes

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:37:30 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 root <root@mangue.ibm.net> wrote:

> Now my question : How to test it? How to generate an IRQ13 interrupt?

Perhaps try creating illegal floating-point numbers by type-casting to
(float *)? I'd have to read up more on the Intel FPU architecture to
suggest specifics, but it's a direction that might be worth a try.
--Scott
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