Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/20/2000 11:59:44
This irq isn't in use by anything else..Marking it legacy only makes the
kernel not panic, it doesn't make the wss work. The wss isn't on 10, just the
config has it there...

James

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>jchacon@genuity.net writes:
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>> Let me walk you through it then.
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>> Most devices in the system these days get auto-assigned by the bios in some
>> way (pci, pnpbios,etc). The bios choses anywhere it wants for the most part
>> that doesn't conflict and in my case irq 10 doesn't conflict because nothing
>> else got assigned there, just that GENERIC hard coded something there.
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>FWIW, my BIOS allows me to mark an interrupt as "ISA/Legacy" which prevents
>PCI/PNP cards from using it.  Pretty every BIOS on every machine I have allows
>this.  It is a "normal" feature on an Award BIOS definitely.
>Also, some of the PCs with a custom BIOS provide a DOS configuration utility
>that does something similar.
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>[ But certainly the code should be fixed anyway. :) ]
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>-Andrew
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