From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 21: 3:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C633F37B404 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2L53LC69028; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:03:21 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:03:21 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: Re: Where do I find isa_strayintr() to turn off stray irq7 message? Message-ID: <20020321170321.A68978@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:26:43PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:26:43PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > 5.24. What does ``stray IRQ'' mean? > Stray IRQs are indications of hardware IRQ glitches, mostly from hardware > that removes its interrupt request in the middle of the interrupt request > acknowledge cycle. > One has three options for dealing with this: > * Live with the warnings. All except the first 5 per irq are suppressed > anyway. > * Break the warnings by changing 5 to 0 in isa_strayintr() so that all the > warnings are suppressed. > * Break the warnings by installing parallel port hardware that uses irq 7 > and the PPP driver for it (this happens on most systems), and install an ide > drive or other hardware that uses irq 15 and a suitable driver for it. > > Where do I find isa_strayintr() to turn off irq7 message? It's in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/intr_machdep.c. You can tweak it to not log the message. Some C experience required. A kernel rebuild is also required. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message