Subject: Re: INSTALL conf file
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/19/1995 16:40:39
On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:

> > Actually, this is the only reliable way to set this port up... at least, 

I think I spoke a bit too strongly, looking at this the second time.  I 
didn't make any disclaimer about the logical device being irrelevant to 
what I was saying.  What matters is that you never ever share ISA 
interrupts unless you've triple checked your hardware docs and verified 
that this is actually possible.  Most of the time it's not.

> Anyway, com2 and above are probably best left out unless you can be
> sure that the probe won't harm anything else at whatever address it is
> frobing.

This makes sense.

--scott