Steve McCrystal wrote:
 
> ** Reply to note from Felix Miata  Fri, 19 Mar
2004 19:46:56 -0500
 
> > But it does. WinXP uses APIC, but OS/2 does not AFAICT. APIC
means enough unique IRQ's for
> > everything. Without it, 16 have to be shared.
 
> Where do these myriad extra IRQs come from?  Unless there have been
substantial changes in
> *hardware* archetecture, there are only 16, and some of them are
already claimed.

You will not see higher than #15 from the BIOS. Above #15 is the job of
the OS.

I Googled for you. If you want more, you can Google yourself. 
http://foldoc.hld.c64.org/foldoc.cgi?APIC
http://www.openbg.net/sto/os/xml/pic.html

I know I've seen a PC lately where the IRQ enumeration from the OS
showed numbers higher than 15, but racking my brain hasn't succeeded yet
in remembering when or how. Prolly Linux. If/when I remember I'll let
you know.
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Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/



 
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