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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:38:01 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), jeff-ml@mountin.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 missing some docs? 
Message-ID:  <199810232238.PAA01715@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:26:40 -0000." <199810232226.PAA09157@usr07.primenet.com> 

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> > > 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.
> 
> I was under the impression that we had registered default handlers for
> all IRQ's, and thus 7 was no longer the grabage bin unless there
> was a deassert race that indicates a real problem?

The use of 7 for stray interrupts is a hardware feature; it has nothing 
to do with having handlers registered or otherwise.  (We must have a 
handler registered, as otherwise we wouldn't know it'd happened...).

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