MSR storing - to Joel and E.Valette

[leonp]

On Thursday 24 January 2002 12:32, you wrote:
> leonp wrote:
> > This I didn't catch. How will they know about HW events, if IRQ is
> > disabled?
> Because the context switch reenables the IRQ :-)
:-)))
OK, I agree.
But what to do in my case - I want to disable IRQ globally, I don't want HW 
events to occur?
BTW, to achieve the today's functionality with my suggestion seems to be 
simple - write the TASK_SWITCH/TASK_POSTSWITCH user extension which enables 
IRQ globally at the task switch time.
-- 
Dr.Leon M.Pollak
Director
PLR Information Systems Ltd.
leonp at plris.com