On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Seth Arnold wrote: > Is this a feature of x86 not supporting interrupt levels natively, or is > there something deeper to understand? :) I think Christopher meant that interrupts can either be enabled (sti) or disabled (cli). Perhaps you need to elaborate on what you mean by interrupt priority. x86 interrupts are handled on the basis that the lower the interrupt number the higher the priority, but this is probably not what you're thinking about. Cheers, Zwane Mwaikambo -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/