On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:46 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > its basically not possible. PC architecture has changed quite a lot in > the last few years, and AFAIK you can no longer get the kernel to change > IRQ assignments. it seems stupid, i know, but i dug into this rather > deeply a year or so back, and basically the kernel picks up the IO-APIC > routings and does not modify them, even with the many flags that appear > to be related to possibly modifying them :( there is a really cool perl > script that actually analyses IO-APIC routings via the /proc filesystem, > and it confirmed for me what i was worried about. > > if your BIOS doesn't allow it, you're out of luck *AFAIK*. if i am > wrong, i will be happy to hear more, since i face similar issues on my > laptop. Has it ever been possible to change the IRQs of onboard devices? I thought it was hard wired. Lee
