September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
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An interrupt is a representation of an event that changes the succession of instructions performed by the processor. Interrupts imply an electric signal generated by the hardware to signal an event that has happened, such as a key press, reset, and so on. Interrupts are divided into more categories depending on their reference system, as follows:.
The Linux interrupt handling layer offers an abstraction of interrupt handling for various device drivers through comprehensive API functions. It is used to request, enable, disable, ...
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