From: "Henry Sieff" <henry.si...@gmail.com>
To: "Joco Salvatti" <salva...@gmail.com>
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html
12.7.3
2009/5/14 Joco Salvatti <salva...@gmail.com>:
Hi,
I would like to know if a different hardware can shared the same IRQ
with another?
12.7.3 is accurate, however there is a difference between 'can it' 'should
it' and 'will it'
'should it?' - yes, it should
'can it?' - yes, it can
'will it?' - that's the tricky one. Some devices just don't share interrupts
well. Perhaps it's shit hardware, a shit APIC, crappy BIOS, naff driver -
whatever.
PCI devices can theoretically share interrupts, but that doesn't necessarily
mean they will.
PK
