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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
Date: 23 Jan 1997 19:01:59 -0500
Organization: Panix
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Message-ID: <5c8u5n$o9s@panix2.panix.com>
References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no> <5bu02e$ip2@panix2.panix.com> <E4H0xw.HLs@ora.de>
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In article <E4H0xw.HLs@ora.de>, Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote:
>In <5bu02e$ip2@panix2.panix.com> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
>
>>In article <5bsm97$l9a@verdi.nethelp.no>,
>>Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote:
>>>Um, the SMC uses INTA and INTB - it is of course up to the BIOS to map
>>>these. The Cogent and Znyx cards *only* use INTA, so there's no way to
>>>map those (two or four) ports to more than one IRQ.
>
>>*Sigh* Compliant PCI devices are *not* supposed to hardwire their PCI INT.
>
>Uhm, how exactly is what Steinar describes not PCI compliant?

Do I not recall correctly that the host BIOS or operating system is supposed
to be able to specify the INT for any device?

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                          tls@panix.COM

 Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/