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.