From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 23 15:46:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19129 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19124 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:46:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06539; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:44:36 +0200 (CEST) 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> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:44:35 +0200 Message-ID: <6537.909182675@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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