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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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        Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: PCMCIA Interrupt sharing (Was: 5 devices in 4 PCI Slots ?)
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> The 'bus' code is not setup to share the IRQ, but the drivers themselves
> need not be aware of it, since they don't service the interrupts
> directly.

What "bus" code is used for PCMCIA cards? Why is it not set up for
interrupt sharing, at least within a card?

Note: I'd really like to be able to use FreeBSD on a laptop, but so far,
when I've asked, I've been told that I'd have to wait until some
unidentified person(s) in Japan wrote drivers.

--Brett