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Date:      Sat, 18 Jan 1997 04:33:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Merry <ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu>
To:        ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu (Kenneth Merry)
Cc:        smp@csn.net, cbrown@aracnet.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 3940UW and SMP
Message-ID:  <199701180933.EAA10357@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199701180728.CAA07347@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> from Kenneth Merry at "Jan 18, 97 02:28:43 am"

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Kenneth Merry wrote...
> 
> 	Well, with all the talk of interrupts, I got a bit curious and did
> a few tests with my system to see how things would work.  In summary, the
> way slots go on my system, according to the manual is that PCI slots 1-3
> have unique interrupts, and slots 4 and 5 share the same interrupt. (Steve
> gave a much more detailed assessment of how things work...)
> 
> 	Before I started these tests, my original, working (i.e. for
> Uniprocessor, APIC_IO and non-APIC_IO kernels) configuration looked like
> this:
> 
> Slot 1: Adaptec 3940UW   (IRQ 11)
> Slot 2: Matrox Millenium (IRQ 10)
> Slot 3: no card          (IRQ 9)
> Slot 4: SMC 10/100       (IRQ 14)
> Slot 5: no card          (shares IRQ 14 w/ slot 4)
> 
> 	I hard-coded each of the above IRQ values in the BIOS for each
> slot.
> 
> 	I then changed things around so that all of the interrupt assignments
> were autoconfigured by the BIOS.
> 
> 	On boot, the BIOS prints out the interrupt assignments and class
> names of the various PCI boards.  Here's the way it assigned the
> interrupts:
> 
> Slot 1: SMC 10/100       (IRQ 5)
> Slot 4: Adaptec 3940UW   (IRQ 14 for channel 1, IRQ 3 for channel 2)
> Slot 5: Matrox Millenium (IRQ 3)

	I made a mistake here, it should actually be:

Slot 1: Adaptec 3940UW   (IRQ 14 for channel 1, IRQ 3 for channel 2)
Slot 2: Matrox Millenium (IRQ 3)
Slot 4: SMC 10/100       (IRQ 5)

	Steve gets credit for pointing out the brain-o. :)

Ken
--
Kenneth Merry
ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu
Disclaimer:  I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.



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