Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:06:42 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: sin@openportal.org.ua Subject: Re: Incaccuracy in the Handbook Message-ID: <200801211006.42247.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080121111755.GA28672@blackbone.openportal.org.ua> References: <20080121111755.GA28672@blackbone.openportal.org.ua>
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On Monday 21 January 2008 06:17:56 am sin@openportal.org.ua wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html > > Quote: > "(for obscure technical reasons, IRQ2 = IRQ 9)" > > Doesn't it seen to you that this sounds like a huge ignorance when stated in > a fundamental document like FreeBSD handbook? If you just want to omit some > unnescessary technical details, maybe, you should rather just say "for > technical reasons" instead? > > P.S. Just for that case if an author of this chapter didn't know why it happens > that way: > > "IRQ 2 - Cascaded signals from IRQs 8-15. A device configured to use IRQ 2 > will actually be using IRQ 9" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_request Perhaps s/obscure/obtuse/. It actually is obscure to a lot of folks who aren't intimately familiar with x86 internals. -- John Baldwin
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