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Hi,
my kernel runs perfectly in qemu, but when i run it with bochs after few seconds of task switching it stops with an exception n 13 should be the bad tss exception. 5 o 6 times the task switch occours because each process prints a different message.
Now...if it have to comply about the tss, why after several switches?! sometimes after 50. I do not alloc nothing new the 2 tasks tey just enter in an endless loop and they write a character on the screen. STRANGE

this is the interesting part in the bochs output:



looks like that an hardware interrupt fires?! i have masked all the irqs except the irq0 for the timer and that is mapped at 0x20.

Thanks for the help
Dave

Ok...few minutes to remember that i do not put an entry in the idt table for the irq7 = offset 39 in my remapping of the irqs = 0x27...
Anyway qemu do not complain even without it if the irq do not fires. Looks like bochs uses that irq line for some reasons and test if it have an entry in the idt.
I repeat, the irq line is also masked and the only one not masked is for the timer, irq0. Bochs just complains for IRQ37 i can put all zeros in the other entries of the IDT.

But now it works

I've never seen IRQ7 randomly fire on Bochs... On real hardware IRQ7 usually is a "spurious interrupt", and I indeed observed it on some PCs.