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Date:	Thu, 20 May 1999 13:50:27 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: #5

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> >Which ones did you have in mind? :))
>
> Shared IRQ polling in particular. I haven't done any
> code for this, but I suspect the code to clear the
> PCI interrupt controller for the next request may be
> different than what you would do for the 8259's on
> the ISA bus.

I'll have to go refresh my memory on shared IRQ's since I've never done
one, but I thought the driver told the kernel upon return if it had
serviced the IRQ. If it had, the kernel was done with it; if not, the
kernel called the next driver in that IRQ's chain.

- Peter

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