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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:54:02 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        E00114@vnet.atea.be, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple COM ports with same IRQ
Message-ID:  <199607190254.MAA30468@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Considering the UARTS will generate edge interrupt rather than level, will 
>this work? Will sio grab the "dual port" interrupt then interrogate the 
>individual status regs of the UARTS? I'm not too concerned with operation 
>under DOS here, so I'm only concerned with FBSD.

16550 UARTs just generate signals that should work with either level or
edge sensitive schemes.  If the interrupts are still edge sensitive from
the 8259 PIC's point of view, then they can't be shared.

Bruce



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