Subject: Re: interrupts, was new serial driver
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@og.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/15/1997 11:29:34
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Probably. splsoft* does block the clock. Unfortunately we can't change
> the hardware Apple gave us. :-(

This is unfortunate, but true.

> Is there some way we can squeze the splsoft*'s between spl1 and spl0?

Perhaps; there's no way to do it by using the processor's IPL mechanism,
though, as is done currently.  (As you say, we can't change the hardware
Apple gave us.)

--scott