From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:52:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:52:17 -0500 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:60936 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:52:06 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:51:47 +0000 From: John Levon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: bsprunt@bucknell.edu Subject: Re: installing an APIC interrupt handler w/o patching the kernel? Message-ID: <20020130025147.GA95029@compsoc.man.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020129095621.02268288@mail.bucknell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020129095621.02268288@mail.bucknell.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: Bendik Singers - Afrotid X-Toppers: N/A X-Scanner: exiscan *16Vkqp-000COJ-00*v0KTVCbHWEo* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:17:14AM -0500, Brinkley Sprunt wrote: > Is there a recommended way to install an APIC interrupt handler without > patching the kernel? You can set it to NMI delivery and do a horrible hack to install a new IDT entry. You might want to talk to Gareth Hughes, btw. regards john -- "In no sense is [in]stability a reason to move to a new version. It's never a reason." - Bill Gates