Re: Annoying kernel behaviour

[Gerd Knorr]

> >There are no conflicts, and PCI should be able to share anyways.
>  
>  That's the theory now for some time, has never worked.  Even hacking
>  the SCSI driver, any attempted IRQ sharing kills my systems.  Even my
>  quad ethernet is not successful at sharing IRQs with itself, in 2+ very
>  different motherboards.

For bttv I know that irq sharing works in some cases and not on others.
Last not-working report was bttv sharing with a nvidia.  Moving the
grabber board to another PCI slot (nvidia having a exclusive irq then,
bttv shared the irq with something else) fixed it.

  Gerd

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