29 Mar
2000
29 Mar
'00
5:15 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Marcus Gossner wrote:
The IRQ assignment can't be done in the operating
system. It depends on the
wireing on your board and therefore it is done in BIOS. You can check the
IRQ assignment with your original BIOS:
So I have to disagree. If the OS can figure out what motherboard it is,
then it ought to be able to do the assignment, since PCI int assignment is
known for a given motherboard. Or am I missing something (again) :-)? It
seems to me that all openbios has to do is communicate motherboard info to
the OS, and let the OS do the rest. BIOSes do a very poor job in interrupt
allocation anyway (as we have found the hard way out here -- we had one
COMPAQ motherboard that vectored everything to IRQ11 for very bad reasons)
But thanks, I will take a look at this.
ron
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