Re: Finding the interrupt vector of a given IRQ

[richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Mark Farnell <mark.farnell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is for an assignment, where the student needs to write an
> interrupt handler.
>
> Since the OS is run on a virtual machine,  I need to find a way to
> trigger the IRQ to let the students' interrupt handler to handle the
> interrupt.

What a stupid assignment!
Assignments like this make only sense if you have real hardware...

Anyway, create a timer (e.g struct timer_list) which calls your ISR.
That's how people test their ISRs.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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