At boot up the IRQ's can be the same. An OS (via a manufacture specific
driver) may reassign it. For stability I would NOT trust any OS to reassign
it automatically, I would choose a specific IRQ an I/O base address for
both.
Patrick
msn:pwgrant@mailandnews.com
"thou shalt not murder" is proper translation
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill [mailto:selinux@home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:43 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] basic IRQ question
On Tuesday 09 October 2001 22:52, you wrote:
> Is it okay for two PCI ethernet cards to share the same IRQ? For the
> moment, they're both at IRQ 11, and I do see that there are a few other
> IRQ's available...should I switch one of the cards to an open IRQ?
>
> Thanks for helping education along....
>
> Russell
Russ ... I am keenly awaiting an intelligent and informed answer, but my
understanding is that PCI was meant to handle shared IRQ's from the get-go.
I have been wrong before and it could be happening again, so don't take my
word as gospel on this one.
Bill
-- icq # 126373831 http://www.anhonestdesire.com"Thou shalt not kill" is not negotiable.
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