On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:40:54AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is > not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256.
This is wrong. The first IO-APIC gives you 8 additional interrupts to the 16 ISA interrupt lines. Every additional IO-APIC gives you 24 more. Most modern chipsets have one IO-APIC, at least for non-embedded systems. It doesn't mean you don't get interrupt sharing though. Joerg _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
