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Date:      Thu, 03 May 2001 20:05:09 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG (chat@FreeBSD.ORG)
Subject:   Re: Modem Woes 
Message-ID:  <200105031803.f43I3Gp71344@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010503114324.0459d260@localhost> ; from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>  "Thu, 03 May 2001 11:49:37 CST."
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010503114324.0459d260@localhost> 

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> >In FreeBSD, COM ports can not share IRQs.
> 
> Terry, this is not correct. I have several multiport cards 
> in which several UARTs share IRQs. They all run fine
> under FreeBSD. Here's an excerpt from the kernel config of 
> one of them:

Erm you guys are talking about different things. COMports are the
"usual" serial ports that one finds on the motherboard these days
and on a "multi-io" card in the old days.

> device          sio2    at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty flags 0x585 vector siointr
> device          sio3    at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty flags 0x585 vector siointr
> device          sio4    at isa? port 0x1f8 tty flags 0x585 vector siointr
> device          sio5    at isa? port 0x1e8 tty flags 0x585 irq 9 vector siointr

These are mutiport cards, and they can share interrupts _only_
because they have the hardware to do it. This hardware is NOT usual
on a "normal" COMport.

M
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Mark Murray
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