Subject: Re: VS 4k 7930 audio progress report
To: Blaz Antonic <blaz.antonic@siol.net>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/16/2004 10:54:33
> 
> Lads, i'm off for today, bug hunting starts tomorrow now that this thing
> finally compiles and executes as expected. Could somebody (ragge ?)
> please take few moments and describe how to: [A] set up a software
> interrupt kernel for NetBSD/VAX (HW handler is allocated via vecalloc)
> and [B] how to invoke a software interrupt on Vax (there is no
> equivalent of INT instruction on x86 in Vax instruction set it seems,
> yet there are 255 or so vectors avaliable so there must be some way to
> invoke handlers for non-hardware interrupts). A working example of both
> would be nice :-)
> 
For software interrupts, see "man 9 softintr".  That describes a 
generic framework for software interrupts that vax uses.

-- Ragge