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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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Subject: Re: kernel: stray irq7
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
 > Ian Smith wrote:
 > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
 > >
 > >  > I have FreeBSD -CURRENT as of  Mon Jul 17 20:06:47 AST 2006 on my
 > >  > Toshiba Tecra A4 on my laptop and I keep on getting kernel: stray irq7
 > >  > messages in my syslog and dmesg
 > >  > 
 > >  > I have absolutely no idea what does it mean except that it is related to
 > >  > irq(s) somehow!
 > >
 > > % dmesg | grep 'irq 7'
 > > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
 > >
 > > Does your Tecra have a parallel port?  Is it connected to anything?

 > Actually I do have a parallel port (DB25) that is not connected to
 > anything, but when I grep that, I get:
 >  dmesg -a | grep ppc0
 > ppc0: parallel port not found

Well that's not good news if you want it - maybe needs enabling in BIOS? 

It might pay to do a verbose-message boot and check dmesg carefully.

 > stray irq7
 > 
 > Does this help?

Maybe related, but the irq 11 storm associated with cbb0 and iwi0 you
reported to David W looks like more of a worry; I'll dip out of that.

|> irq11: cbb0 iwi0+*                323649         13

Cheers, Ian