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...). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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