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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:10:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        winter@jurai.net, newton@atdot.dotat.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IRQ sharing with newbus
Message-ID:  <199906012210.AAA04951@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906012247290.411-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Jun 1, 1999 10:48:14 pm"

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As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Mark Newton wrote:
> > > So, guys -- What is the officially blessed way of sharing IRQs under
> > > newbus?
> > 
> > If you find out, let me know since the EISA code suffers the same problem
> > (though the drivers do a bit better job detecting the condition, and just
> > fail to attach instead of panicing.)
> 
> For EISA, it should be possible to add RF_SHAREABLE to the
> bus_alloc_resource call (assuming that EISA interrupts are shareable like
> pci interrupts).

IRRC (it's been years) EISA cards can, but don't have to, support shared
interrupts. I think the SCU/ECU can set this based on what the .CFG
file of the card tells it the hardware can do.

I once designed a EISA 2 channel SCSI adapter but that was > 9 years ago.
Bitrot..

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