Linus Torvalds on how AMD and Intel are changing how processor interrupts are handled

[Kent Sharkey]

ZDNet[^]:

AMD and Intel recently started changing how the x86 chip architecture will handle exceptions. Linus Torvalds, in turn, gave his take on their new approach for forthcoming generations of CPUs.

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[Rick York]

Wow - an actually interesting article on ZDnet. That is a very rare thing.

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