Re: IRQ-Routing for 5.3-BETA

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:25:21 -0800
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2004 19:43, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
>>When the BIOS gives an initial irq, we always try to route to that
>>one first since some devices don't work at any other irq.
> 
> 
> I marked the appropriate IRQ in the BIOS as "ISA/nonPnP", so the marked 
> IRQ *should* be assigned for the ISA card by the BIOS (but obviously 
> isn't).
> 
> I hope I could clear the situation a bit.
> 
> I sure can switch to 6-CURRENT or at least try the new acpi_pci_link.c, 
> but I don't believe that the problem is IRQ 9....
> 
> Thank you very much for your interest. I fear, these old ISA cards are 
> no longer of public interest... :-)

I MFC'd the change to RELENG_5 as well so if you can test there or on 
6-current, you should fine that the card works as before.  The change 
was to allow the SCI (irq 9 on PIC systems) to always be used for 
devices, even if the ACPI _PRS setting for the device doesn't explicitly 
allow it.

-Nate
Received on Tue Nov 09 2004 - 04:32:54 UTC

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