HLT instruction question

[thekeyboardbum]

Hey whats up? Currently i am trying to implement a way to "wait for a keypress to continue"

Since the code can explain it better then i can, well here it is haha

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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; 	The Kew Keyboard ISR calls the old keyboard ISR	and ;;
;; 	updates bit 0 at 9ffff  to 1 when a key is pressed  ;;
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NewKeyboardISR:
	push es
	push ax
	mov ax,infoSegment ;infosegment:0 is original ISR for keyboard
	mov es,ax
	or byte [es:deviceStatus],0x1 ;changes to 1 whenever keyboard is pressed
	mov ax,900
	mov es,ax
	pushf
	call far [es:0] ;calls original keyboard ISR
	pop ax
	pop es
	iret

	
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Below is the main interrupt accessed by int 60h 		;;
;; currently it's only function is to wait till a key	;;
;; is pressed before it returns						  	;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
MainInt:
	mov WORD [messagePointer],(kerneladdr+(PressAKey-Kernel))
	call 0:biosPrintString
	push ax
	push es
	mov ax,infoSegment
	mov es,ax
	and byte [es:deviceStatus], 0xFE
	.loop
		hlt
		mov byte al,[es:deviceStatus]
		and al,1
		cmp al,1
		jne .loop
	pop es
	pop ax
	iret

So basically when interrupt 0x60 is called it waits till my new keyboardISR updates a bit saying a key was pressed. The problem is the program hangs =/ . I don't think its bochs either. Any help would be much appreciated =). - Happy Coding

*edit* hm i guess i could make a keyboardISR and have it jump to w/e address when a key is pressed...but i'm still wondering why this hangs XD

[Pyrofan1]

hlt halts the CPU

[inflater]

HLT halts the CPU like I was told, until a hardware interrupt occurs, so in the keyboard handler it's OK. If used with CLI and HLT, this should halt the system completely - Try giving STI in the very beginning of your int 0x60 ISR. I had a CLI in mine and it halted the system completely, because it waited for the keyboard interrupt when interrupts were disabled

inflater

[thekeyboardbum]

Hm still no luck...
*edit*

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mov ax,900 

should of been

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mov ax,0x900 

haha i hate that when it happens

But you where right about the sti

[Colonel Kernel]

@Mods: Please move this to the OS Development forum... Thanks.