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Hi Peter,
Sorry for the delay.
Ok.. so IRQ sharing is FIXED in 99% of situations now? I can take 2 quad
cards from different manufacturer's and put them in the same box and they
will work on the same IRQ (from the BIOS perspective)?
This is not said. All 4 ports of a single quadboard will have the same IRQ but
if you put in a second quadboard from a different vendor your machine might just
end up using different IRQ. Interport IRQ routing on a single quadboard is
almost always shared. Also you need to take into account that this can change if
you enable local APIC on UP or APIC in general for SMP boards. There you most
propably end up with less probability of shared IRQs. However you end up with
bigger problems with certain Intel boards based on the 440GX+/440LX+ chipset.
So SCSI needs to be a seperate IRQ from the rest? Don't share SCSI. What
about Firewire or USB2 or ... ;)
I'm not that much into firewire and USB2, since having a packet filter or high
traffic node with quadboards normally implies in not having the need for any
firewire or USB2 devices. YMMV.
It pays to buy good SMP boards. Have you looked at the AMD bus at all?
If you're going SMP then yes, pay a 200 bucks more and get a decent board with
EMP and MCE support via console (UART). I have looked at the AMD boards but in
our lab we've found them to be less ready to work properly with the rest of our
hardware then Intel based boards. I wish support for AMD boards in Linux would
be better but this is just a matter of time.
I could go on and on and on, ... I spent too many days
staring at the bus analyzer.
Do the girls know this? I hope they don't get jealous :))
<warning: OT area>
:) Don't worry. I guess the keys to achieve an equilibrium in this perspective
are:
o Work when they are out with some friends or when they sleep
o Get them interested in what you're doing by telling them that what you're
doing is very important to save the world and will be rewarded with good
money. Part of the money will then be spending money for cruises and shiny
things.
I'm actually not making this up, Linus Torvalds told me this at this year's
OLS, when I asked him about his relationship with Tove :)
o You could be doing worse: hanging around in bards and drinking with your
mates. Ask her what she prefers.
This is a freely interpreted part of a recent book I read from the marvellous
columnist Dave Barry of the Miami Herold!
o Always plan some spare time to spend with a girl. Most girls like attention
which doesn't have to be long in timespans but intensive in its varieties.
</warning: OT area>
Thanks for your comments
Hey, for you all the time, mate!
Cheers,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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