From f81bf65484fa8c81a1886f456c71f1e6eebe84e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexis211 <alexis211@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:39:57 +0200
Subject: Added a lot of comments in kernel code. A bit of cleaning too.

---
 src/kernel/task/idt.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/kernel/task/idt.h')

diff --git a/src/kernel/task/idt.h b/src/kernel/task/idt.h
index b12d6c5..1ac03e2 100644
--- a/src/kernel/task/idt.h
+++ b/src/kernel/task/idt.h
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 #ifndef DEF_IDT_H
 #define DEF_IDT_H
 
+/*	The IDT is the system descriptor table that tells the CPU what to do when an interrupt fires.
+	There are three categories of interrupts :
+	- Exceptions ; ex: page fault, divide by 0
+	- IRQ : interrupts caused by hardware
+	- System calls : when an applications asks the system to do something */
+
 #include <types.h>
 
 struct idt_entry {
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