Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 15:07 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Has it ever been possible to change the IRQs of onboard devices? I
> > thought it was hard wired.
>
> the wiring into the IO-APIC is board-level, but the IO-APIC is
> programmable and thus you can change the actual IRQ that the device
> generates, in theory.
But at this point, the interrupt lines from onboard and external PCI
devices are already merged, so changing the IRQ would just move
both devices.
When an onboard device and a PCI card conflict, you have to move the
card to another slot (or, better, to fix the driver(s)).
Regards,
Clemens
Received on Tue Oct 10 12:15:04 2006
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