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Joep Blom wrote:

> Charles, thanks.
> The problem I have is that I want to force a certain card to a certain 
> IRQ, so e.g. 3189too  alias eth0  irq=9, alias eth1 irq=11 but I don't 
> think that works.

Umm...no.  You typically can't *SET* the IRQ used by a card via the
device driver.  You would have to do that in the BIOS, with jumpers, or
with something that understands the IRQ routing on your motherboard (ie:
a chipset driver or something).

A PCI card asserts one of up to four interrupt signals (A-D), and the
BIOS is responsible for appropriately connecting these interrupts to the
interrupt controller and reporting the IRQ mapping to higher level
software (see the PCI BIOS Specification for details on how this works).

Passing an IRQ value to the driver is just for those cases where the
interrupt cannot be appropriately auto-detected (ie: mainly ISA bus
cards, where interrupts are typically set by physical jumpers).

> By the way, your suggestion of using the initrd_usb.lrp package works 
> like a charm. Simply make a floppy with only the startup files and 
> initrd_usb ( renaming it to initrd) and store all .lrp files on an 
> usb-stick and set in leaf.cfg PKGPATH="/dev/sda1:msdos"

Yep...as expected.  The tricky part is building a kernel and initial
ramdisk that can boot from a USB device.  Since this was already done by
the Bering-uClibc team, all that remains is to get the kernel and initrd
into memory somehow, typically via your favorite boot-loader.  Could be
LILO, grub, syslinux, loadlin, ROM, or whatever...

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Charles Steinkuehler
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