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- From: krause@mksol.dseg.ti.com (David J. Krause)
- Subject: Re: AT PIC questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.182916.3837@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: AT PIC 8259 master slave EOI
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <6587@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:29:16 GMT
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- In <6587@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> rjm@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Robert J. Manley) writes:
-
- >Hi netters.
-
- >Some easy question for those with their tech ref manuals nearby.
- >For the AT PICs (8259) I need to know:
-
- > 1. slave IO port address
- Ports A0h and A1h are to the slave 8259 what ports 20h and 21h are for the
- master 8259.
-
- > 2. slave INT vect range set by BIOS
- The interrupts generated by the slave 8259 are 70h - 77h. BTW, 70h is the
- high-speed timer tick interrupt.
-
- > 3. EOI sequence (master/slave or slave/master)
- I believe that you send an EOI to slave then master, but I could not
- guarantee that.
-
- Good luck,
- Dave
-
- This has got to be some of the hardest to find info out ther on the PC.
-
- krause@lobby.ti.com
-