Re: Kernels 2.1 with 386DX/387 IRQ13 PC boxes
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:40:12 +0000 (GMT)
> > 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.
On a 386 or 486SX generating a divison by 0 is an easy way to do it