Subject: Re: i386 interrupt counters
To: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu, explorer@flame.org>
From: Chris Torek <torek@BSDI.COM>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/21/1996 02:27:22
And one more comment:

>interrupts ... are _not_ "per-device," but rather "per-bus" on many systems

True; evcnt's were not intended to replace everything, but rather
to fix up ugly hardwiring of things like `vector 0x240007 is the
console unless the CPU is a Blorch-325'.  If the hardware has a
fixed, regular set of interrupts that can be counted & handled in
common code, they probably should be.

Chris