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- From: Andy.Tainter@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Andy Tainter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel c
- Message-ID: <726224757.AA30397@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
- Lines: 51
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- JS>From: jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave)
-
- JS>In article <725836861.AA28902@remote.halcyon.com>
- JS>Andy.Tainter@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Andy Tainter) writes:
-
- JS>>You *CAN* have more than one card on INT 2, this is a cascaded int
- and
- JS>>you can have upto 7 (may be 6) devices using it...
- JS>>
- JS>>That is DOS, maybe linux cannot do that, but the hardware is set
- upto
- JS>>do
- JS>>it...
-
- JS>This is not quite correct. INT 2 is connected to the interrupt
- request
- JS>output of the second interrupt controller which in turn is connnected
- to
- JS>the ISA bus IRQ8..IRQ15 lines. When one of these lines has an active
- JS>high edge, the second controller generates an interrupt request
- which
- JS>then activates the INT 2 input of the master interrupt controller.
- This
- JS>input is NOT connected to any line anywhere on the ISA bus. The
- JS>interrupt controllers are programmed for cascade operation on the
- master's
- JS>INT 2 request line so that the interrupt vector passed to th CPU on
- an
- JS>interrupt generated on IRQ8..IRQ15 will get its vector supplied from
- the
- JS>second interrupt controller. Of course Linux upports this, if it
- didn't,
- JS>no non-SCSI disc would work.
-
- JS>None of this has anything to do with sharing a bus IRQ line between
- cards -
- JS>the advice posted earlier is correct - you can not share interrupts
- JS>between cards without modifying the motherboard with diode networks.
- It
- JS>may work at first but the long term effect is likely to be component
- damage.
-
- Interesting, we have done it on a couple of really loaded PC's at work
- with no apparent problems...
-
- Andy
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