Not really. In fact trying to do hardware interrupt masking on the APIC
(and its masking you want not disabling to be pedantic but to make it clear)
is rather hard.
You can generally do it in software instead. In fact rtlinux runs the linux
kernel as a task being message passed interrupts when it isnt asserting
(its now private) cli/sti
Alan
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