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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 01:03:24 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
To:        BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More or fewer IRQs? 
Message-ID:  <199609190803.BAA08004@MindBender.serv.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Sep 96 00:44:45 -0800. <9608188431.AA843112557@ccgate.infoworld.com> 

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>If what you say is true, the only place I can be sure to save time (this is
>on a 486DX4/100) is at the ICU by setting those AUTO_EOI flags. But how
>safe are these? I was getting missed IDE completion interrupts with a
>kernel that had AUTO_EOI_1 on, but don't know if that was the only source
>of the problem. (I've changed a LOT of options in more recent kernels.)

I have run a kernel with AUTO_EOI_1 and AUTO_EOI_2 both enabled, with
two IDE drives, and I didn't have a single problem.  This was on an
ALR 386 EISA motherboard.

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