On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Can someone direct me to some link or tell me how to write the interrupt > table at the kernel level? I want to find out what exactly those table > entries convey to the processor. I don't understand your question exactly, but anyway I would suggest - reading Pentium manual from Intel (I've it somewhere on my disk, if you can't find it) - see arch/i386/kernel/traps.c, especially functions as set_trap_gate(), _set_gate(), etc. - just be more specific. Your question could be answered shortly by two words: lidt instruction. ;) -- JiKos. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/