2.3 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER
The equivalent of two 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controllers (PIC) are included on the
Following is the system information of interrupt levels:
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NMI |
| Parity check | |
CTRL1 |
| CTRL2 | |
IRQ 0 | System timer interrupt from timer 8254 | ||
IRQ 1 | Keyboard output buffer full |
IRQ 2 |
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| IRQ8 : Real time clock |
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| IRQ9 : Rerouting to INT 0Ah from hardware IRQ2 |
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| IRQ10 : Spare |
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| IRQ11 : Spare |
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| IRQ12 : Spare |
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| IRQ13 : Math. coprocessor |
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| IRQ14 : Hard disk adapter |
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| IRQ15 : Spare (Watchdog Timer) |
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IRQ 3 |
| Serial port 2 | |
IRQ 4 |
| Serial port 1 | |
IRQ 5 |
| Parallel port 2 | |
IRQ 6 |
| Floppy disk adapter | |
IRQ 7 |
| Parallel port 1 | |
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