Re: IRQ routing table?

[ron minnich]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Richard Smith wrote:
> Do I have to have a that big IRQ routing table or is there a simpler 
> LinuxBIOS way?  If not since I don't have a table to begin with I'll 
> have to hand generate one.

If you know what values to set on the irq pin for each PCI device for your 
board, just hard-wire them in hardwaremain, and set the router settings 
too. You only need the IRQ table if you want linux to do all the routing 
work.
> The microsoft documentation claims that the IRQ routing table is for 
> legacy systems that cannot do dynamic IRQ routing and that ACPI systems 
> should use the ACPI based method.

ah, what do they know anyway :-)

I saw that comment on ACPI but fact is, our newest mobos still have that 
IRQ table in there.

ron