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Date:      Mon, 04 Nov 1996 11:09:23 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely), hackers@FreeBSD.org, multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Matrox Meteor and PPRO problem found 
Message-ID:  <199611041909.LAA02830@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 1996 19:20:29 %2B0100." <199611041821.TAA01810@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> 

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>From The Desk Of Stefan Esser :
> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > > I could get Neptune based PCI 90 Mhz Pentium system to crash with the met
eor
> > > if I was capturing and viewing on the same machine.
> > 
> > I did notice one thing today, though I don't know if it's at all
> > relevant:
> > 
> > ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:11
> > meteor0 <Philips SAA 7116> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:19:0
> > 
> > Notice how they're both on the same IRQ?  I can capture without saving
> > all day, turn on grab-and-save, however, and I trigger the hang
> > problem Amancio's been talking about.  Interesting coincidence.  Does
> > our PCI code currently handle IRQ sharing with 100% success?
> 
> Well, I'm quite convinced it does ...

Curious , how  is the IRQs sharing currently being implemented?
Or how does the PCI code know which adapter generated the interrupt?

	Tnks,
	Amancio







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