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Date:      Sat, 06 May 2000 10:40:11 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why would fxp be slower than ed?
Message-ID:  <4.3.1.2.20000506103437.03fcf520@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000506131523.026548b0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
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At 05:20 AM 5/6/2000, Olaf Hoyer wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Well, on those old boards the IRQ 5 had to be designated via jumpers or
>BIOS entries to a specific port. I once did some routing of the IRQ 5 to
>ISA only (because my old soundblaster was there), and wondered why my
>system (had an old ASUS PCI/I SP3 in, the predecessor to the SP3G) won't
>boot. There I discovered with diag software that my vid card (Miro 8S)
>actually also took the IRQ5, and was hardwired to that....

We were using IRQ 5 for the NE2000 clone before we went to the fxp. So,
I know that the IRQ is available and that nothing is hardwired to it.
I initially avoided IRQ 15, because I was concerned that it might be
hardwired to the second IDE interface, but I may try it now.

>Because its only PCI 1.3 spec, I assume, there are some issues in general...
>Basically, you have to configure it properly with the IRQ routing, 

The BIOS is Award, which has a very clear user interface for this. 

>also
>take in mind that most vid cards also want one.

We're letting the video card grab IRQ 9 for its exclusive use.

--Brett


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