[64studio-devel] Interrupts and stuff

[Lee Revell]

On 10/4/07, Michael Jarosch <riotsound at riotmusic.de> wrote:
> My card (hdsp) is on IRQ 17, sharing it with the Ethernet-Port, now.
> After manually moving the soundcard from PCI-Slot to PCI-Slot I can
> summarize, that i can't get the soundcards IRQ below 16. Using 16 is a
> bad idea, since this IRQ is shared with the graphic-adapter + firewire.
> The only Interrupt that can be used solely is IRQ 19, far away from
> being the best configuration.

What's wrong with having it alone on 19?  IRQ number does not matter
as long as the IRQ is not shared.

>
> I read on a german audio-forum called audio4linux that there seems to be
> a kernel patch, allowing to assign an IRQ to a PCI-Slot. Is this patch
> already in the 64studio kernel? And if yes, how to use it?
>

Unlikely, this is controlled by the hardware/firmware not software.

Lee