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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Third serial port
Summary: IRQ2=>9
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.220018.18080@ico.isc.com>
Date: 19 Dec 89 22:00:18 GMT
References: <12978@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <1989Dec19.002448.2979@virtech.uucp>
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cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> ...tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay) writes:
> > Does anybody know if it is possible to use IRQ 2 for a serial port?
> You can't use IRQ 2 for anything on any AT bus system.  IRQ 2 is used 
> by the second interrupt handler.  Usually IRQ2 on a bus card is mapped
> to IRQ 9, so try that or try a different IRQ.

IRQ2 on a PC corresponds to IRQ9 on the AT bus--which includes the 386 ISA
machines.  By that I mean that the line on the bus which generates an IRQ2
on a PC generates an IRQ9 on an AT (since, because of the reason Cahill
points out, it wouldn't make sense to have an IRQ2 bus line).  So, if you
have a board which is designed to have "IRQ2" as one of its choices,
selecting that will give you an IRQ9 on an AT-bus machine without further
ado.
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