## Physical Device Driver Reference

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### State of the Interrupt Flag

The physical device driver can assume that the state of the interrupt flag is preserved, and that the DevHlp routine does not enable interrupts unless stated otherwise in the functional description for each routine. The only exceptions apply to functions that allow the physical device driver to relinquish control of the CPU. Therefore, during calls to functions such as Yield and TCYield, it cannot be assumed that interrupts will remain disabled.