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>This chapter describes the API that device drivers may use
to interact with the kernel and HAL. It is primarily concerned with
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>Hardware interrupts are delivered with minimal intervention to an
ISR. The HAL decodes the hardware source of the interrupt and calls
the ISR of the attached interrupt object. This ISR may manipulate the
hardware but is only allowed to make a restricted set of calls on the
driver API. When it returns, an ISR may request that its DSR should be
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