[Asterisk-Users] How many X100P's in a system..

asterisk at sasami.anime.net asterisk at sasami.anime.net
Wed May 28 23:05:40 MST 2003


On Wed, 28 May 2003, Mark Spencer wrote:
> > No, that's not the reason at all. Most systems are not short of IRQs.
> > The reason is that standard PCI bus only has 4 interrupt lines.
> > Shared IRQs are not bad at all. It's only bad if the card is badly
> > designed.
> All the Zaptel hardware *should* be able to share IRQ's.  Each of the
> cards has a register that can tell us if the IRQ was real or not.

I would hope so.. but didnt someone say the x100p docs stated the card 
required its own non-shared irq?

BTW does the x100p use dma? There are some motherboards with specific 
slots which cannot do dma (eg Abit BP6).

-Dan




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