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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:42:50 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        mrcpu@cdsnet.net, se@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IRQ sharing on PCI?
Message-ID:  <199611161242.XAA17993@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> None of my other Pentiums do it, they all get different IRQ's.
>
>This depends on the PCI BIOS, which is free 
>to assign any IRQ to any PCI Int line.
>PCI requires shared interrupts to work, since
>there are far less real interrupt request 
>inputs in a typical system, than independent 
>PCI Int lines.

Doesn't a typical system have only 3 or 4 PCI slots and many more
than 3 or 4 IRQs, so it is hard to run out of IRQs?  Mine has 3
PCI slots, all full (:-(), and they get assigned irqs 10, 11 and
12 (one wasted for vga0).

Bruce



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