At 9:42 PM -0800 1/4/00, Allen Briggs wrote:
>> Nothing's different in 1.4. Doesn't "current" use the alternate
>> priorities on 840av already? I ran a wscons kernel for about a week,
>> and I'm sorry to say it loses time just as badly as 1.4.x.
>
>We don't try to use the alternate priorities on the AV.  -current
>does have the auxilliary interrupt framework.  1.4.x does not.  To
>try it on -current, set mac68k_machine.aux_interrupts to 1 in the
>MACH_CLASSAV case around line 2164 of machdep.c and do some work
>in intr.c:intr_init().  It might work, but I kind of doubt it since
>the AVs have a different interrupt scheme altogether with DMA
>support.

Do the -AV machines even have alternate priorities?  They were built in the
post-A/UX era.

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