Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 21:09:31
Message-Id: 201005212308.54436.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a shared interrupt by Grant
1 On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Grant wrote:
2 > >> > if your mobo does not supporting re-assigning interrupts: you can't.
3 > >>
4 > >> Would that be done in the BIOS? There is a list of interrupts in the
5 > >> BIOS and I can select either "Unassigned" or "Reserved" I think. What
6 > >> affect will reserving an interrupt have?
7 > >>
8 > >> - Grant
9 > >
10 > > I really don't know. Ask the support of your vendor ;)
11 >
12 > Fair enough. Can you tell me why a motherboard would assign 2 devices
13 > to the same IRQ when there are obviously many free ones? Is it just
14 > bad implementation?
15 >
16 > - Grant
17
18 because interrupt sharing is not a problem anymore?