Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:15:22 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, se@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRQ sharing on PCI? Message-ID: <96Nov17.111531pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Nov 96 04:42:50 PST." <199611161242.XAA17993@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199611161242.XAA17993@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans wrote: >Doesn't a typical system have only 3 or 4 PCI slots and many more >than 3 or 4 IRQs, so it is hard to run out of IRQs? Some BIOS's prefer to give only one interrupt to all PCI devices anyway. My old Intel Somethingorother(Plato?) motherboard had to be tricked into assigning my ethernet and SCSI two different IRQ's; the first time I booted with both present there were several IRQ's available to the BIOS and it still assigned them both the same. Bill
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