On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <
[email protected]> wrote:

> In short I dunno.
>
> damn!

> The long answer is that you should look at the FreeBSD kernel code.
>
> It is very big compared to OpenBSD and you will have to spend a long time.
>
> damn again!

> Normally however the clock interrupt gets the highest priority.
>
> Normally interrupts on x86 are managed by the 8051 PIC I think.
>
> It happens at the hardware level. Most of the time interrupt lines are
> shared and daisy  chained.
>
> Okay. I guess I just have a really long night ahead. :) Thanks for the
reply anyway.


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Eknath Venkataramani
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