As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Mark Newton wrote:
> > > So, guys -- What is the officially blessed way of sharing IRQs under
> > > newbus?
> > 
> > If you find out, let me know since the EISA code suffers the same problem
> > (though the drivers do a bit better job detecting the condition, and just
> > fail to attach instead of panicing.)
> 
> For EISA, it should be possible to add RF_SHAREABLE to the
> bus_alloc_resource call (assuming that EISA interrupts are shareable like
> pci interrupts).

IRRC (it's been years) EISA cards can, but don't have to, support shared
interrupts. I think the SCU/ECU can set this based on what the .CFG
file of the card tells it the hardware can do.

I once designed a EISA 2 channel SCSI adapter but that was > 9 years ago.
Bitrot..

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