IRQS on 6 Slot Macs

[Bob Brose]

User Benjamin Herrenschmidt says:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:35, Robert E Brose II wrote:
>
> > A couple of things right off, the rage128 appears to be the only thing on
> > irq 23 however 23 doesn't show up in /proc/interrupts meaning, I suppose,
> > that it's not using the interrupt. So why does the drm complain?
> >
> > How come everything from slots 3-6 says it's on the same interrupt (25)?
>
> I don't know what's up with the DRM not liking your interrupt. I can
> answer for the sharing of USB, symbios and firewire interrupts: all 3
> slots share one interrupt because of bad motherboard design :)
> Basicallly, what they did when designing that machine was to use a
> standard powersurge design with 3 slots and replace one of them
> with a PCI<->PCI bridge. Since they didn't "know" how to get more
> interrupt lines out of Grand Central, they just also stuffed all
> interrupt lines together for those 4 slots (I'm pretty sure GC do
> have spare lines they could have used, but that would have meant
> updating Open Firmware to understand the layout, I doubt the people
> who designed that machine wanted to dive into that).
>
> Ben.

I suppose then that I should reorder the cards so that the ones generating
the most interrupts would be in the first 2 slots? It's pretty funny
having the possibility of the use of lots of irqs then ending up with
x86 style sharing. :(

Bob
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