Chapter 3 BIOS Setup
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IRQ Assignment Table
There are 15 interrupt sources of the system. Some are exclusively occupied by the
system devices. Only the ones that are not exclusively occupied can be distributed.
The ISA devices claim to engross the interrupt .Only the plug and play ISA devices
can be distributed by the BIOS or the OS .And several PCI devices share one
interrupt through the distribution of BIOS or OS. The diagram below shows parts
of the interrupt distribution under X86 platform, but it does not show the interrupt
source occupied by the PCI devices.
Level
Function
IRQ0
System Timer
IRQ1
Standard 101/102 Key or Microsoft Keyboard
IRQ2
Programmable Interrupt Controller
IRQ3
COM #2
IRQ4
COM #1
IRQ5
Parallel Port #2
IRQ6
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
IRQ7
Parallel Port #1
IRQ8
System CMOS/RealTime Clock
IRQ9
Software Transfer to Int 0Ah
IRQ10
Reserved
IRQ11
Reserved
IRQ12
Reserved
IRQ13
Mouse Connector
IRQ14
Master IDE
IRQ15
Slave IDE