Pawel S. Veselov wrote:
> Hello, Bernhard!
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> >> Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
> >> VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 7548 (rev 0).
> >> Fast devsel. IRQ 255.
> >>
> >> Note that the video device is on IRQ 255. Is this possibly a bug somewhere?
> >
> >IRQ 255 doesn't exist, but it looks like a (unsigned char) -1.
> >My guess is that your VGA card doesn't use an IRQ, and IRQ 255 is the PCI
> >driver's way to display this.
>
> PCI controller sets -1 ( 255 ) IRQ in two cases :
> a) The PCI device doesn't need an IRQ.
> b) There is no available IRQ to assign to this device.
>
> Bye.
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