Messages in this thread | | | From | Jose Miguel Pereira Tavares <> | Subject | Re: Exception Handling - changing the IDT from a kernel module | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:55:32 +0100 |
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On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu wrote: >On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Jose Miguel Pereira Tavares wrote: > >> Is there a gracefull way of changing the values of the IDT from >> a kernel module? Or is going directly to the hardware the only way? > >why do you want to change the IDT? Linux takes care of IDT handling - and >if you need something new then lets extend the kernel, not change the IDT >directly.
I'm developing a fault injection tool, and as such I need to be able to change the handlers of some exceptions, and then pass the control to the linux kernel again.
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