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2 Summary of the HP/Phoenix BIOS
Overview of Address Space
Interrupt Controllers
The system has two 8259A compatible interrupt controllers. They are
arranged as a master interrupt controller and a slave that is cascaded
through the master.
The following table shows how the master and slave controllers are
connected. The Interrupt Requests (IRQ) are numbered sequentially,
starting with the master controller, and followed by the slave.
1.
IRQ15 can be made available by disabling the secondary channel of the IDE
controller in the SETUP program.
2.
IRQ3 and IRQ4 can be made available by disabling the serial ports in the
SETUP program.
IRQ (Interrupt Vector)
Interrupt Request Description
IRQ0(08h)
System timer
IRQ1(09h)
Keyboard controller
IRQ2(0Ah)
Slave IRQ
Cascade connection from INTC2 (Interrupt Controller 2)
IRQ8(70h)
Real time clock
IRQ9(71h)
Available for PCI accessory boards, if not used by ISA boards
IRQ10(72h)
Available for PCI accessory boards, if not used by ISA boards
IRQ11(73h)
Available for PCI accessory boards, if not used by ISA boards
IRQ12(74h)
Mouse
IRQ13(75h)
Pentium processor
IRQ14(76h)
Integrated primary IDE hard disk controller
IRQ15(77h)
Free, if not used by secondary channel of IDE controller
1
(CD-
ROM)
IRQ3(0Bh)
Free, if not used used for serial port
2
IRQ4(0Ch)
Free, if not used used for communications board or serial port
2
IRQ5(0Dh)
3
Free, if not used used for sound board or parallel port
4
IRQ6(0Eh)
Flexible disk drive controller
IRQ7(0Fh)
Free, if not used used for parallel port
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