Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:44:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40592 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201301130544.r0D5iPPS022715@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Sun Jan 13 05:44:24 2013 New Revision: 40592 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40592 Log: "likely can be deleted stray IRQ is no longer a FAQ. It was an ISA card issue." Noted by: imp Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun Jan 13 05:43:14 2013 (r40591) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun Jan 13 05:44:24 2013 (r40592) @@ -2840,46 +2840,6 @@ chip1@pci0:31:5: class=0x040100 c </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question id="stray-irq"> - <para>What does <errorname>stray IRQ</errorname> mean?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>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.</para> - - <para>One has three options for dealing with this:</para> - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Live with the warnings. All except the first 5 per - irq are suppressed anyway.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Break the warnings by changing the value of - <varname>MAX_STRAY_LOG</varname> from - <literal>5</literal> to <literal>0</literal> in your - platform's (e.g., &i386;) - <filename>intr_machdep.c</filename> and rebuild the - new kernel and all the warnings will be - suppressed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>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.</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="file-table-full"> <para>Why does <errorname>file: table is full</errorname> show up repeatedly in &man.dmesg.8;?</para>
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