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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:58:22 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        arlied@microsoft.com (Arlie Davis)
Cc:        drussell@saturn-tech.com, vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tyan ATX 1668
Message-ID:  <199704151658.JAA22513@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <7D06B4AA8B39D011A64900805F682CDA01001D72@RED-09-MSG.dns.microsoft.com> from "Arlie Davis" at Apr 14, 97 05:09:05 pm

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> So, having five PCI slots is completely "legitimate".  You should be
> able to put a PCI card in both slot 4 and 5 which both use INT A (or any
> common PCI INT) and it _should_ work just fine.  It doesn't, of course,
> under most Intel-architecture OSes.

It's not legitimate if the MPtable does not account for five PCI devices,
so one of the devices is misidentified as an ISA device.

You can't share interrupts between PCI and ISA devices.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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