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Re: Some remarks: Interrupts and serial ports



On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote:
> 
> 	Hi all!
> 
> I've read a discussion about serial ports and interrupts and still have
> some doubts.
> WHY KERNEL'S SERIAL DRIVER IS WRITTEN IN THIS WAY THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO
> SHARE INTERRUPTS?

I think it is more of a case of PC's bad design, IIRC the latest kernels can
share the interupts, but it's not recommended.

Adrian

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