Re: Handling interrupts from userspace

Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl)
Thu, 29 Jul 99 23:53:46 +0200

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:07:30 -0700 (PDT), Linux Lists wrote:
> Is it possible to handle interrupts from userspace (i.e., _without_ the
> help of a driver) ?? If positive, could you please give me some directions
> on how to do that?? The main problem I see is how to register the
> interrupt from userspace and how the kernel would call the userspace
> interrupt handler ...

Look how it is done in DOSemu. IIRC, the "silly interrupt generator" is
more or less what you want.

Erik

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