Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

[ron minnich]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> There's a potential hint in src/arch/i386/lib/idt.c:biosint():
>     // cases in a good compiler are just as good as your own tables. 
>     switch (intnumber) {
>     case 0 ... 15:
>             [..]
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PCIBIOS
>         case PCIBIOS:
>                 [..]
> #endif
>         case MEMSIZE: 
>                 [..]
> #ifdef CONFIG_INT21HANDLER
>         case 0x15:
>                 [..]
> #endif
>         default:
>                 [..]
>         }
>
> It looks like this case construct was done for readability, but in fact 
> some kind of interrupt lookup table is needed to handle things
> correctly.

guilty as charged. I tried to make it readable but had no idea that we 
would need a table. Ignorance on my part.

ron