Re: IDT question

2007-11-28 Thread Ramagudi Naziir
Rene, Thanks ! and welcome back (just kidding) ;) On 11/25/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25-11-07 08:58, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: > > > I read in intel's manual that you can either put interrupt gate > > or a task gate in the IDT. > > Or trap-gate, which is an interrupt-gate minu

Re: IDT question

2007-11-25 Thread Rene Herman
On 25-11-07 08:58, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: I read in intel's manual that you can either put interrupt gate or a task gate in the IDT. Or trap-gate, which is an interrupt-gate minus the automatic interrupt disabling. So what does Linux put there ? when an int 80 is executed - is it via an in

IDT question

2007-11-25 Thread Ramagudi Naziir
hi all, I read in intel's manual that you can either put interrupt gate or a task gate in the IDT. So what does Linux put there ? when an int 80 is executed - is it via an interrupt gate or task gate ? are task gates used in Linux anyway ? thank you naziir -- To unsubscribe from this list: sen