Are keyboard and mouse interrupts maskable?

[jj1984]

In x86, if I set the IF flag in the EFLAGS register to 0, can I mask keyboard and mouse interrupts?

Are keyboard and mouse interrupts unmaskable and must be handled no matter what?

 

[jj1984]

Any thoughts, guys?

 

[Cromewell]

I think they are maskable. In my brief read, I'd suggest http://wiki.osdev.org/PIC and http://wiki.osdev.org/"8042"_PS/2_Controller first, and if they don't help, going to the more generalized http://wiki.osdev.org/Interrupts