Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:44:35 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> 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: <6537.909182675@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:26:40 -0000." <199810232226.PAA09157@usr07.primenet.com>
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In message <199810232226.PAA09157@usr07.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >> > 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? > >You should ask Bruce Evans for confirmation. IRQ is the i8259's garbage bin, regardless of config. If an IRQ is asserted too short for classification by the i8259 it becomes irq7. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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