Re: PCI interrupts

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:07:34 +0100


Hello,

> [[ It's possible for the kernel to have intimate knowledge of the
> motherboard chipset and do the same thing that the BIOS does, but the kernel
> cannot know how every motherboard is wired c.f the recent APIC code. So
> the short answer "no" is pretty much accurate. ]]

Actually, several PCI BIOSes support a "remap IRQ" call and the kernel PCI
code could call it. I think I'll try to play with it a bit.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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