From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What determines which interrupts are shared under Linux?
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:29:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E1DA57.4010309@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.xiop2gho7OdOydmzXzpUsR5ksXM@ifi.uio.no>
Roger Heflin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Linux when interrupts are defined similar to below, what defines say
> ide2, ide3 to be on the same interrupt? The bios, linux, the driver
> using
> the interrupt? And can that be controlled/overrode at the
> kernel/driver level?
>
Typically this is determined by the hardware routing of the interrupt
lines on the motherboard, occasionally the BIOS. There isn't usually
much that can be done about the sharing at the kernel level.
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next parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.xiop2gho7OdOydmzXzpUsR5ksXM@ifi.uio.no>
2006-08-15 14:29 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-08-15 14:17 What determines which interrupts are shared under Linux? Roger Heflin
2006-08-15 14:30 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-08-15 14:38 ` Roger Heflin
2006-08-15 14:47 ` Len Brown
2006-08-15 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-15 15:24 ` Roger Heflin
2006-08-15 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-15 17:47 ` Roger Heflin
2006-08-15 18:13 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-16 22:54 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-17 0:39 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:18 ` Roger Heflin
2006-08-15 15:19 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-15 17:31 ` Terence Ripperda
2006-08-15 17:42 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-08-15 17:43 ` Terence Ripperda
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