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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:48:03 -0700
From:      Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stray irq 7 
Message-ID:  <200101181848.f0IIm3h29818@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:04:10 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010118122059.01fb0b00@mail.etinc.com> 

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In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010118122059.01fb0b00@mail.etinc.com>, dennis@etinc.co
m writes:
>
>I know we've discussed this before. But I cant believe its a "hardware 
>problem".

Standard PIC behavior is to assert IRQ7 when an IRQ line is deasserted before 
it can be properly latched in.

>and if you've identified it why is there no simple workaround after all this 
>time (or is there)?

You can replace the device not keeping its interrupt line active long 
enough, or ignore the spurious int7 messages.


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