On 12 Nov 2015, at 19:38 , Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com> wrote:

So this basically means that the microkernel has its own driver code for the timing hardware?

Yes. The microkernel has two drivers: the interrupt controller (needed to assign interrupts to handlers) and a timer (needed for preemption). When compiled for debugging there’s also a serial driver.

Gernot



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