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On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> well, that's unclear, last i heard linux was the only OS to support shared
> IRQs and i don't even know how well it handled it. (i think it was more of
> a "don't use them at the same time" deal)

  Add FreeBSD to that list.

  How well this works will depend a bit on your motherboard.  Performance
should not be noticable different when sharing IRQs.

> Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
> -- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD.
> -- http://www.freebsd.org/

Tom


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