On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Mark Farnell <mark.farnell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is for an assignment, where the student needs to write an > interrupt handler. > > Since the OS is run on a virtual machine, I need to find a way to > trigger the IRQ to let the students' interrupt handler to handle the > interrupt. What a stupid assignment! Assignments like this make only sense if you have real hardware... Anyway, create a timer (e.g struct timer_list) which calls your ISR. That's how people test their ISRs. -- Thanks, //richard _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies