AR-B1579 User’s Guide
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2.3 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER
The equivalent of two 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controllers (PIC) are included on the AR-B1579 board. They
accept requests from peripherals, resolve priorities on pending interrupts in service, issue interrupt requests to the
CPU, and provide vectors which are used as acceptance indices by the CPU to determine which interrupt service
routine to execute.
The following is the system information of interrupt levels:
IRQ8 : Real time clock
IRQ9 : Rerouting to INT 0Ah from hardware IRQ
IRQ10 : spare
IRQ11 : spare
IRQ12 : spare (PS/2 mouse)
IRQ13 : Math. coprocessor
IRQ14 : Hard disk adapter
IRQ15 : Reserved for watchdog
InInterrupt Level
NMI
CTRL1
IRQ 0
IRQ 1
IRQ 2
IRQ 3
IRQ 4
IRQ 5
IRQ 6
IRQ 7
CTRL2
Parity check
Description
Serial port 2
Serial port 1
Spare
Floppy disk adapter
Parallel port 1
System timer interrupt from timer 8254
Keyboard output buffer full
Figure 2-1 Interrupt Controller
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