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To: <E00114@vnet.atea.be> (Rob Schofield), freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Multiple COM ports with same IRQ
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Under ISA, interrupts CANNOT be shared. It is an electrical problem that
cannot be fixed via software.