Re: [rtl] 16 bit I/O on a PC

[David Ross <davidr@toadtech.com>]

> From mikem@rtlinux.cs.nmt.edu  Tue Oct  6 09:53:34 1998
> Date: 06:47:56 +0200
> To: rtl@rtlinux.cs.nmt.edu
> From: wrm@ccii.co.za (Wouter de Waal)
> Subject: Re: [rtl] 16 bit I/O on a PC
> Sender: owner-rtl@rtlinux.cs.nmt.edu

On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 Wouterr wrote

> 
> Hi Reg
> 
> >2) Also, has anyone worked on rotating the hardware interrupt
> >sequencing mask? We used int 7 in DOS and could allocate that as
> >the highest priority by rotating the mask bit so that 7 always 
> >happened, and then 0, 1 ...6 in that order.  WIndows unfortanately 
> >disables interrupts for large blocks of code and is of no use for 
> >this work.
> 
> irqtune. I'm using 0.6 to make my modem port the highest priority
> interrupt.

I have been using it for awhile and it works really well. The docs in the 
distributions have some good info on system tuning issues.

Regards,

david
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