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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: PS/2 level-triggered interrupts
Message-ID: <1974@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 26 Jan 89 13:39:42 GMT
References: <1907@ast.cs.vu.nl> <11932@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <11932@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) writes:
>I think the best way of fixing the interrupt problem for floppy disks is
>to call fdc_results within disk_int and return the status bytes in the
>message.

I am not sure if this is a suitable solution in general, i.e., one probably
needs analogous hacks for the printer, ethernet, hard disk, serial port, etc.,
and that comes close to putting a fair amount of the logic in the interrupt
routine, something that has been avoided so far.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)