CIM Reference Guide

64 CIM_LogicalElement
Hardware Indicates whether the interrupt is hardware- or software-based. (A
value of TRUE indicates that the interrupt is hardware based.) On
a personal computer, a hardware IRQ is a physical wire to a
programmable interrupt controller (PIC) chip set through which
the microprocessor can be notified of time critical events. Some
IRQ lines are reserved for standard devices such as the keyboard,
diskette drive, and the system clock. A software interrupt is a
programmatic mechanism to allow an application to get the
attention of the processor.
Boolean
Table 3-39. CIM_IRQ Properties (continued)
Class Name: CIM_IRQ
Parent Class: CIM_SystemResource
Property Description Data Type