[coreboot] ACPI on m57sli v1.0

Russell Whitaker russ at ashlandhome.net
Fri Jul 3 00:08:48 CEST 2009



On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Harald Gutmann wrote:

> On Thursday 02 July 2009 21:40:52 Peter Stuge wrote:
>> Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
[..]
> What is the difference between interrupt driven and polling?

Polling means the printer driver checks the printer at regular intervals
to see if the printer is ready for another character.

Interrupt driven the printer tells the driver it's ready.

Thus a high speed printer will run a little slower with polling.

   Russ




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