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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 missing some docs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810231011060.28673-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981023032536.0075034c@207.227.119.2>

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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:

> At 08:55 AM 10/22/98 -0700, Doug White wrote:
> >I'd have to install 3.0 on my -STABLE workstation to test this.  It may be
> >that the message was hidden behind bootverbose since it doesn't mean
> >anything and there's nothing you can do about it.  My workstation spits
> >out an IRQ 7 each time the serial port is closed.  Wacky, eh?  I have a
> >ASUS T2P4 board.
> 
> Ah, very wacky since I've only seen this before on a T2P4 with both FBSD
> and BSDi _and_ neither had any com ports in the kernel _nor_ was it enabled
> in BIOS.

You'll see it if your lpt port is in polled mode, like mine is.  I
discovered this tidbit the hard way with the qcam driver; every time I
logged out of X the system would panic.  I finally got a VT320 and ran a
serial console and figured out what was going on.  At first I thoguht the
motherboard was bad and hd it replaced, and it did the same thing. 

> Is this worth pursing?  There were no problems (AFAIK) with the strays, but
> if this is a bug of some sort...

It's a hardware-ism.  IRQ 7 is the generic junk IRQ.

Doug White                               
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