Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265612AbTFNEX0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:23:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265613AbTFNEX0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:23:26 -0400 Received: from windsormachine.com ([206.48.122.28]:50191 "EHLO router.windsormachine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265612AbTFNEXZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:23:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:37:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Dresser To: Subject: Re: generic method to assign IRQs In-Reply-To: <1055563922.11874.29.camel@rivendell.home.local> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 920 Lines: 20 On 13 Jun 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > This issue may not matter much on "normal" systems, but it matters a > whole bunch on multimedia machines. Not being able to untangle like five > or six devices assigned to the same IRQ may render an otherwise powerful > system totally unusable for any decent media purpose (i'm talking here > about simple tasks such as watching movies, not necessarily of > professional stuff, which is even more demanding). Some of the problem is that motherboard manufacturers setup their hardware so that slots HAVE to share IRQ's no matter what you do. I've seen motherboards that have shared IRQ's even if there are no cards plugged in. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/