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Sir Richard 4e16ca56ce [HAL]: Rewrite IRQL handling. Alex's original code (lately translated to C) was a copy of the MicroChannel (MCA), Checked-Build HAL, an unexplained choice considering MCA is not supported or even available anymore. Windows, on machines with a PIC, uses a mechanism called Lazy IRQL, in which the PIC is only programmed "lazily", meaning that lowering and raising the IRQL does not actually change the interrupt mask. Therefore, lower priority interrupts will still come in at high IRQL. At this point, the HAL will detect this, only now mask the PICs, and lie that the lower interrupt was "spurious", while setting a pending bit. When the IRQL is lowered, the bit is detected, and a software/delayed "INT" is done with the correct IRQ vector number. More details are available in the typical resources. ... [HAL]: Implement support for Level interrupts, which are used by certain EISA cards, and more particularly, all PCI hardware. Level interrupts were not previously handled correctly, being treated as edge/latched interrupts instead. [NTOS/HAL]: Remove VDM Alert KPCR hack (which was buggy). Now the PKTRAP_FRAME is passed as a parameter to HalpEndSoftwareInterrupt/HalEndSystemInterrupt. This also removes the HalpNestedTrap ASM hack, since the call can now be done in C. [PERF]: On real machines, writing the PIC mask is a relatively expensive I/O operation, and IRQL lower/raise can happen hundreds of times a second. Lazy IRQL provides an important optimization. [PERF]: Correctly handling level interrupts as level interrupts allows for faster, and more efficient, IRQ handling. svn path=/trunk/; revision=45320		2010-01-29 21:10:33 +00:00
irc	Give Techbot the ability to check for and ghost existing bots, then rename itself	2008-08-10 13:06:58 +00:00
reactos	[HAL]: Rewrite IRQL handling. Alex's original code (lately translated to C) was a copy of the MicroChannel (MCA), Checked-Build HAL, an unexplained choice considering MCA is not supported or even available anymore. Windows, on machines with a PIC, uses a mechanism called Lazy IRQL, in which the PIC is only programmed "lazily", meaning that lowering and raising the IRQL does not actually change the interrupt mask. Therefore, lower priority interrupts will still come in at high IRQL. At this point, the HAL will detect this, only now mask the PICs, and lie that the lower interrupt was "spurious", while setting a pending bit. When the IRQL is lowered, the bit is detected, and a software/delayed "INT" is done with the correct IRQ vector number. More details are available in the typical resources.	2010-01-29 21:10:33 +00:00
rosapps	Arch, why are you removing </module> tags ?	2010-01-01 01:41:39 +00:00
rostests	[MSHTML_WINETEST]	2010-01-18 16:59:11 +00:00
wallpaper	Rename the wallpaper to conform with ISO 9660:1988 and make cdmake happy...	2009-02-03 13:26:30 +00:00