How to get keyboard input in an Homemade OS?
Share
Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Given that no further explanations are given, I’ll assume a x86 platform.
You need to install a handler for the keyboard interrupt. Here is an example as a Linux module that you can probably get inspiration from: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/x1210.html
And also:
http://wiki.osdev.org/Interrupts
If you give more detail about your OS (architecture? real or protected mode?) we can probably give you better answers.