From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 3 19:33:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C46137B60E for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03857; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:33:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:33:39 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Sean-Paul Rees Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shared IRQs Message-ID: <20000303193339.A2537@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000303192526.A425@dreamfire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <20000303192526.A425@dreamfire.net>; from sean@dreamfire.net on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:25:26PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:25:26PM -0800, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (cvsup'ed as of tonight) machine. It has a USB > controller (PIIX3) and an ethernet controller sharing irq 10. I'm not > much in the way of a hardware expert, so I'm wondering if this is safe or > if I should reroute the ethernet card or the usb to another irq. It's fine, PCI can share interupts. It might perform somewhat sub-optimaly under very heavy load, but it will work just fine. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message