From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 23 15:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18104 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18099 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01715; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:38:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810232238.PAA01715@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), jeff-ml@mountin.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 missing some docs? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:26:40 -0000." <199810232226.PAA09157@usr07.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:38:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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