RE: ESS Solo1 IRQ specification

Tom Livingston (tsl@volition.org)
Sat, 2 Oct 1999 05:19:47 -0700


Alan Cox wrote:
> Ari Pollak wrote:
> > seem to to have a problem with assigning them both the same IRQ, which
> > seems to be creating the obvious problems. If anyone doesn't know how to
> > specify a different IRQ for the solo1 module, perhaps there's a
> > way to do
> > it with the 3c59x mod? Thanks.
>
> PCI irqs are sharable and assigned by the host system. So it
> shouldnt cause any problems in theory

In practice, I've had difficulty with the 3c905 sharing IRQ's.. both with
other devices, and just with other 3c905's. I haven't had the time to look
into it directly, but I suspect that at this point you can't share with the
3c905 (and that means the 3c509, as far as i can tell).

Tom

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