On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:03:21 +0200 Angelo Dell'Aera <buffer@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:39:20 -0700 (PDT) >Mcen navaraj <mcensamuel@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>hi, >> >>what is the use of gates in the intel processors ? >>what is the use of interrupt gate ? > >If you refer to Intel x86 arch you have to distinguish between three types >of interrupt gates which are inserted through three different functions in >the Global Descriptor Table: Errata: obviously it was Interrupt Descriptor Table. Regards, Angelo Dell'Aera 'buffer' <buffer@users.sourceforge.net> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
