On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 01:46 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Nicolas Mederle wrote:

quoted

Hi,

       I want to know how the kernel switch the task. Because my  
kernel
start very well, and it launch  the init.d. With the log, i can see  
that
the kernel launch the getty task. But after, there is a decrementer
overflow interrupt  ( vector at adress 900 ). Is it the task  
switch? Or
is it an error in the decrementer init.

This should be a task switch.  The decrementer is used to handle the  
periodic interrupt to switch processes.

I would have expected quite of few of these actually before you get
there :-)

Ben.