RE: [ILUG] hardware for Linux...

From: Paul Jakma (Paul.Jakma at domain Digital.com)
Date: Tue 17 Aug 1999 - 10:20:45 IST

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> (linux says it's on IRQ 19 - how is that?)

cause it's dual so irq vectors programmed via APIC instead of backwards
compat traditional PC PIC interface.

have a look at linux on alpha/ppc/etc and you'll see things on irq 40+. Eg
OpenPIC supports at least 1024 interrupt vectors iirc.

-paul jakma.

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