Re: Bug: IRQ allocation for PCI devices 1.3.75??

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:20:50 +0100


On 18 Mar 96 at 17:35, Bob Felderman wrote:

> Note that the two devices labeled
> AMCC Myrinet PCI have been given the same IRQ.

I'm not too sure, but isn't that called "interrupt sharing"? I think
PCI devices are able to do so because of level triggered interrupts.

> This used to work fine in previous linux kernels.
> I'll be re-trying 1.3.74 shortly.
> Bob
>
>
> bash# uname -a
> Linux triton 1.3.75 #1 Sat Mar 16 13:06:00 PST 1996 i586
>
> bash# cat /proc/pci
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
> Non-VGA device: AMCC Myrinet PCI (M2-PCI-32) (rev 1).
> Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=66.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffe00000.
> Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> Non-VGA device: AMCC Myrinet PCI (M2-PCI-32) (rev 1).
> Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=66.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffd00000.
> Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 0).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 11.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff000000.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Intel 82371 Triton PIIX (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 1).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64.
>
>
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