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Date:      Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:20:59 -0800
From:      "Darren Pilgrim" <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org>
To:        "'John Baldwin'" <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: can someone explain...[ PCI interrupts] 
Message-ID:  <018e01c5fafe$c9154a20$642a15ac@smiley>

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From: John Baldwin
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> The reason [for masking interrupts] is that PCI interrupts are level
> triggered, so they won't "shut up" until the ISR has run and pacified
> the PCI device.

But PCI interrupts can be programmed either level- or edge-triggered, so
wouldn't programming to edge-triggered interrupts solve the "they won't =
shut
up" issue?





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