Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 14:11:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interrupt allocation Message-ID: <200011092211.eA9MB4903552@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 11:01:06 EST." <200011091601.LAA06059@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> Timesharing requires co-operation from both device and bus, but this
> is a completely different issue. No drivers currently support
> timesharing. `sio' at a minimum probably should, as it was the
> motivating example for adding that feature. (My laptop has three PnP
> sio ports: an internal modem, an external DB-9, and a dual-ported
> infrared transceiver. There are only two interrupts available among
> them.)
They are probably x-bus parts and would support shared interrupts. 8)
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