Changing IRQ

Catalin Bucur cata at geniusnet.ro
Mon Aug 27 12:25:27 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 16:08 +0800, LC wrote:
>> Is there a way to change IRQ of PCI devices?
> 
> The simple way is to plug the device into a different slot.  It may get
> assigned differently, this time.  Sometimes you have to do this, as some
> slots share with each other, or other motherboard devices.  You can
> also, sometimes, tweak things through the BIOS.

If you have PCI network cards, you can change the interrupt from kernel
parameters, e.g. netdev=irq=5,name=eth0

See kernel-parameters.txt from kernel documentation.

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Catalin Bucur      mailto:cata at geniusnet.ro
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