Re: interrupt on demand

[Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG>]

In message <200011220512.VAA03698@capella.ssd.hal.com>, jjf@hal.com writes:
>That's the only functionality I want to use so I don't care what
>else the card supports - it can be a simple test card or a fancy
>I/O device as long as I can easily make it raise an interrupt, and
>preferably don't need to do lots of setting up and configuration.
>It's configuration space should be PCI compliant so Windows 2000
>can automatically load my driver when the card is found.
>
>I'd be grateful for any suggestions and pointers to card specs.

It is easy to do this with Symbios SCSI boards (< $30 a pop) and
trivial with 8250/16450/16550 compatable serial boards (aparantly 
more expensive because every one has enough serial ports onboard
and USB->RS232 is marketing department's preferred solution for
Wintel platforms).

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