Subject: Re: PCIC interrupt selection
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/10/1998 08:27:53
Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com> writes:

> kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein) writes:
> 
> >> I personally think a sysctl is fine ... you'd need sysctl on the
> >> install floppy, of course.  I also think Perry's suggestion of allocating
> >> interrupts in reverse-order would work as well (but that might be hard,
> >> because right now the pcmcia code calls isa_intr_alloc(), and I'm not
> >> sure what changing the order of _that_ would do).
> 
> That's no good.  There is hardware where irq 15 can't be used.
> 

But where 15 can not be used it is because the secondary wd
controller.  We should account for this in irq allocation and not let
pcmcia use this.