[OpenBIOS] Re: Status

Konstantin Zhidkov kzhidkov at avia.formoza.ru
Fri Mar 17 16:57:25 CET 2000


"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote:
...

> > Is linux bootable yet?
> well, depends on what you mean. Yes, I'm booting it fine. BUT: interrupts
> from the timer are not happening, and that is crucial to further
> progress. I need to know the magic to get the APIC and timer ints to go.
> (oh yeah I just got back from 10 days away, so things slowed down).

There is APICBASE MSR int P6 processors,which should be initialized
before first interrupt occur. Here is simplest working code:

xor eax, eax
xor edx, edx
mov ecx, 0x1b
wrmsr

I hope this will work for you.

Konstantin


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