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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 16:46:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE (Wolfgang Helbig)
Cc:        freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AVM A1 Setup bug on NetBSD?
Message-ID:  <199803010046.QAA09966@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803010018.BAA00211@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> from Wolfgang Helbig at "Mar 1, 98 01:18:49 am"

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Wolfgang Helbig writes:
> > Sounds like a case of the chip generating a level-sensitive interrupt
> > and the board needing an edge. If a new interrupt becomes pending
>           ^^^^^ and/or the PIC ?
> > while you're in your interrupt routine, but before you've cleared
> > the old interrupt condition, you must generate a new edge by masking
> > and then unmasking all interrupts.
> > 
> > Just a guess..
> 
> In fact the Siemens chips (ISAC, HSCX) both generate level-sensitive
> interrupts and the PIC on a PC is programmed to be edge-sensitive.
> That's why we have this MASK/UNMASK dance in the ISR in the first place.
> We don't know so much about the board.
> 
> But on the SMP system not even *one* interrupt is delivered, so the
> very first edge seems to be lost.
> On the same hardware this edge is not lost if a uniprocessor kernel
> is running.

Yes, I meant "PIC" instead of "board"... it definitely sounds like a
different problem from what I was thinking. 

-Archie

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