From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Gaurav Dhiman <gaurav4lkg@gmail.com>
Cc: yen <yen@eos.cs.nthu.edu.tw>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IRQ vector assignment for system call exception
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:11:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134238271.2828.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e33f5710512100520k57c016b0tadfbb496cac3ea6e@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:50 +0530, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
> yes, definetely a historical reason. System libraries need to know
> this vector to invoke system call.
nowadays it's also mostly unused; sysenter and friends are used instead
and they don't use this entry point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-10 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-08 8:10 yen
2005-12-08 9:22 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-08 13:26 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-10 13:20 ` Gaurav Dhiman
2005-12-10 18:11 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-12-11 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-15 22:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-15 23:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
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