Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 11:47:51 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, imp@rover.village.org, sef@Kithrup.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <199707220217.LAA26051@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707220215.WAA10202@whizzo.TransSys.COM> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at "Jul 21, 97 10:15:58 pm"
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Louis A. Mamakos stands accused of saying: > > On top of that, working out which interrupt the card is on is not > > easy. There isn't some convenient register that you can read for > > this. 8( > > Back in the days when I ran 4.[23]BSD on my VAX 11/750, the autoconfig > code planted trap catchers in all the likely interrupts vectors. All > you had to do was poke at the device being probed enough to cause an > interrupt, any interrupt. I don't seem to recall configuring > interrupt vectors in my kernel config, and the good thing about UNIBUS > peripherals is that you weren't likely to run out of interrupts. > > Or am I just dreaming this? No, you're not dreaming it. But ISA is not Unibus. > louie -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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