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Re: Interrupt, interrupt threads, continuations, and kernel lwps

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To: Andrew Doran <ad@...>
Cc: Matt Thomas <matt@...>, <tech-kern@...>
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 2:05 pm

On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:09 AM, Andrew Doran wrote:


The problem is I don't think it CAN be "dropped in" on a platform like  
VAX, m68k, or SPARC.  It's easy on x86 because of how simple its  
interrupt model is.  But I don't think that's true on platforms that  
have processor-defined interrupt levels and auto-vectored interrupts.

-- thorpej
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