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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:33:39 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Sean-Paul Rees <sean@dreamfire.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shared IRQs
Message-ID:  <20000303193339.A2537@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000303192526.A425@dreamfire.net>; from sean@dreamfire.net on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:25:26PM -0800
References:  <20000303192526.A425@dreamfire.net>

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On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:25:26PM -0800, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (cvsup'ed as of tonight) machine. It has a USB
> controller (PIIX3) and an ethernet controller sharing irq 10. I'm not
> much in the way of a hardware expert, so I'm wondering if this is safe or
> if I should reroute the ethernet card or the usb to another irq.

It's fine, PCI can share interupts.  It might perform somewhat
sub-optimaly under very heavy load, but it will work just fine.

-- Brooks

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