Re: Why no interrupt priorities?

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 13:17:29 EST


Grover, Andrew wrote:

If a device later in the handler chain is also interrupting, then the
interrupt will immediately trigger again. The irq line will remain
asserted until nobody is asserting it.

I thought I saw examples of edge-triggered shared interrupts earlier in the thread. Doesn't that give the reason for this behaviour?

Chris

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