Subject: Re: PCIC interrupt selection
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/10/1998 08:27:53
Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com> writes:
> kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein) writes:
>
> >> I personally think a sysctl is fine ... you'd need sysctl on the
> >> install floppy, of course. I also think Perry's suggestion of allocating
> >> interrupts in reverse-order would work as well (but that might be hard,
> >> because right now the pcmcia code calls isa_intr_alloc(), and I'm not
> >> sure what changing the order of _that_ would do).
>
> That's no good. There is hardware where irq 15 can't be used.
>
But where 15 can not be used it is because the secondary wd
controller. We should account for this in irq allocation and not let
pcmcia use this.