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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:02:06 -0500
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        Steven <magusbaal@digitalbastards.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI oddity
Message-ID:  <3E4A6FFE.409@mitre.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E4924AC.4010203@potentialtech.com>
References:  <002001c2d186$302725d0$3802a8c0@internal.digitalbastards.net> <3E491EC7.3020300@mitre.org> <3E4924AC.4010203@potentialtech.com>

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Bill Moran wrote:
> Jason Andresen wrote:
> 
>> I'm still curious if this is a problem with FreeBSD, with my 
>> motherboard, or with the Cards themselves.  Is it unusual for a card 
>> to share nicely?  Not one manual for any of my cards even mentions IRQ 
>> sharing.
> 
> 
> Then they probably don't.  IRQ sharing is one of those things that cards
> usually brag about if they support.
> 
> If you have non-sharing cards trying to use a shared interrupt, it won't
> work.  Crashes don't surprise me under these circumstances.

What would I be looking for on the box/datasheet/whitepaper to find if a 
card supports sharing?  Is there an acronym?   Looking at the Intel Pro 
100+ (which IIRC someone claimed supported sharing) on Intel's site
(http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro100_dsktop.htm) 
nothing really stands out and says "I support sharing".  The only thing 
I see that even looks remotely interesting is the claim that it supports 
INTA, which seems a little odd since AFAIK the 4 regular PCI interrupts 
are INTA-INTD, so this looks like it's claiming to suppport interrupts.

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