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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 1997 22:58:01 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Subject:   Re: interrupts in interrupt routines
Message-ID:  <19970909225801.RL53370@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709090626.IAA18398@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Sep 9, 1997 08:26:57 %2B0200
References:  <199709090626.IAA18398@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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As Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> am I correct in assuming that within an interrupt driver interrupst are
> masked according to the imask declared in the config line ?
> 
> e.g. 
> 
>     device pcm0 at isa? tty ... vectpr pcmintr
> 
> results in pcmintr() being called at spltty ?

RTFM. :-)


SPL(9)                 FreeBSD Kernel Developer's Manual                SPL(9)

NAME
     splbio, splclock, splhigh, splimp, splnet, splsoftclock, splsofttty,
     splstatclock, spltty, splvm, spl0, splx - manipulate interrupt priorities

...
     Each driver that uses interrupts is normally assigned to an interrupt
     priority group by a keyword in its config line.  For example:

           device foo0 at isa? port 0x0815 irq 12 tty vector foointr

     assigns interrupt 12 to the ``tty'' priority group.  The system automati-
     cally arranges for interrupts in the xxx group to be called at a priority
     >= splxxx ().

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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