Multiple PCI devices on the same IRQ: kernel or driver?

David david@kalifornia.com
Mon Nov 30 21:49:28 1998


Reply to mail from Donald Becker about Multiple PCI devices on the same IRQ: kernel or driver?
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>> David (david@kalifornia.com) implicated the kernel when he mentioned
>> that he has no trouble sharing an IRQ and credited the development
>> kernels that he runs.
> 
> No, PCI IRQ sharing has worked since 1.1.73 or so.

to be correct about it, i should say "i use 2.1.xxx and have great
results" and halt anyone from inferring i mean that 2.0 or other does
-not- do irq sharing.

and yes.  i switched ncr scsi drivers because one handled irq sharing
much better than the other ;)

-d
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