Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 1999-02-20

Re: PPC Privileged mode

From: Nathan Hurst <hidden>
Date: 1999-02-20 23:48:54

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Steven Bytnar wrote:
How do I exit cleanly from PPC supervisor mode to MacOS? I am trying 
to work with the code in BootX, but it was meant to execute the 
kernel and never return. My purpose is only to read and write to 
supervisor read/writable registers on the chip without destroying 
MacOS.
Can't you either just set the CPU back to user mode, or return from
interupt? 

njh


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