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4.4 Using Multiple AG Boards

If you have two or more different AG boards, you will need to merge the corresponding configuration files. For example, if you are using an AG-8 and an AG-T1, merge the ag8.cfg and agt1.cfg files.
To merge configuration files, you must group the statements into three categories: common, range-specific, and board-specific.
Common statements (such as Interrupt and ReportFile) are those intended to apply uniformly to all boards. These traditionally come at the beginning of the AGBOARD section as described in Section 4.2, AG Configuration File Structure.
Range-specific statements (such as DspFile, TCP, and RunFile) are those intended to apply to a range of boards. Each range of boards requires a corresponding section. Alternatively, the boards in a range may be treated individually, with statements duplicated in each board-specific section.
Board-specific statements (such as Address) are those intended to apply to particular boards. These must fall within appropriate board-specific sections.
Some categories are flexible. For example, one could assign a different diagnostics level to each board (putting Diagnostics in the board-specific category), but it is more common to use the same level for all boards (putting it in the common category). Not all statements have this flexibility, however. In particular, Interrupt is always common and Address is always board-specific.
Note that, since each configuration file must contain an Interrupt statement, there must be a common section. In addition, each board must have an Address statement, so that there must be a board-specific section for each board.
Finally, while some statements (such as Address) may occur only once for each board, others (such as DspFile) may be repeated with different arguments.

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