On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:24:02PM -0700, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> I remember watching Michal making dark mutterings about some of the
> Soundblaster PCI cards last year. Essentially they "assumed" that PCI would
> only use 16 bit addressing space..
I think that you are thinking about four bits for interrupts thus
making only 0 to 15 available. (Did one ever heard about a computer
with such weird IRQ assignments like these?
............
20: 144686 sym53c8xx
44: 351038 eth0
:-)
Sound cards are infamous for cutting PCI spec corners. Such card which
got IRQ 37 will think that is really on 5. Oops! Other devices seems to
be quite a bit better in this respect.
Michal
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