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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:43:43 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: latest bt848 code 
Message-ID:  <199703180543.VAA07396@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:24:43 EST." <199703180524.AAA01636@whizzo.transsys.com> 

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I will look into why are you getting interrupts. You are not supposed
to get interrupts unless the driver failed to disabled interrupts.

Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Louis A. Mamakos" :
> > Hi
> > 
> > You are getting lots of errors on your data streams trying playing with
> > your bios for intance your PCI latency timer should be 32.
> 
> Hmmm.. I'll give that a try.
> 
> > Also Trying disabling shared IRQs
> 
> Well, this isn't gonna work.  There are not enough IRQs for this to
> work, and shared interrupts are a feature of PCI peripherals.  I really
> don't want to have to do this.
> 
> Shouldn't the driver check to see if the board is even enabled to generate
> interrupts before falling into the service routine?  How about checking
> the INT_MASK register at 0x104 to see if we've even enabled interrupts?
> I don't seem to see a simple interrupt asserted bit in any of the status
> registers, which is too bad.  I guess a mask of the appropriate bits in
> the interrupt status register would do it.
> 
> 
> louie
> 
> 





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