Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jan 1999 13:25:06 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] ISA Plug & Play support in kernel |
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > George writes: > > > On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > 6. This won't let us reallocate devices. If I have n IRQs available > > for the ISA bus and cards that need n+2 IRQs, I ought to be able > > to use all but 2 devices at the same time without deciding that > > 2 particular devices just won't ever function. The kernel needs > > to move IRQs as needed so that I can freely use my hardware. > > Or, of course like all intelligent busses, use shared IRQ's. > > Think MCA, PCI (?)...
And to answer my own post, I didn't mean that ISA should use shared IRQ's, because it's too stupid to do this... Get a better bus or accept fixed _IRQ's, is my opinion. We might well try to explain this to the users, but we shouldn't adhere to Micro$oftish beaviour "well, stability isn't important as long as people can use cheap hardware on our system"...
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