Re: Is it possible to change IRQ for certain device?

["Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@gmail.com>]

On Jan 13, 2008 10:57 PM, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 11:57 AM, Jan Marek <linux@hazard.jcu.cz> wrote:
> > I suppose, that VGA card does not need unique IRQ, but programmers,
> > which wrote driver, want it. I can imagine, that VGA card have many
> > interrupts, especially in the OpenGL games, but I cannot assign unique
> > IRQ for VGA card at all :-(
> >
> > But thank you for advice: I will try to send e-mail to Gigabyte and ask
> > they, if it possible to do change in the BIOS.
> >
> > BTW: it is interesting: I had a Biostar TA690G motherboard and it behave
> > similar as Gigabyte: I cannnot assign unique IRQ to the external
> > graphics card... Chipsets of this motherboards are the same...
> >
> > I've tried to solve this problem by bought of new motherboard: Gigabyte
> > MA790FX-DS5. I will see, if this board will behave as previous board...
>
> Why is a shared IRQ a problem for you?  IRQ handlers are supposed to
> be fast enough that disabling an IRQ line for the duration of the
> handler execution should not be a problem even if the IRQ is shared.
> VGA interrupts in particular should only fire once per frame and only
> need to flip some bits to wake up any processes waiting on vsync.
>
> If you have issues with a shared VGA interrupt then the bug is that
> some IRQ handler runs for too long and should be deferring work to a
> bottom half.

Jan is apparently using the nvidia binary driver, so I doubt it will
be possible to fix the bug that prevents it from sharing IRQs.