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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:08:21 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        gibbs@plutotech.com, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: options DPT_LOST_IRQ
Message-ID:  <199809242208.IAA32108@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> If it stops asserting the interrupt, we should get a stray interrupt
>> reported when we go to clear the pending mask.  Is this what is happening?
>
>I don't actually think we should; the stray interrupt feature occurs 
>when an edge is seen on an interrupt line, but when the latch fires 
>(one or two clocks later?) there is nothing there to latch.  This is 
>the way the 8259 works; PCI and APIC interrupt behaviour is still largely
>a mystery to me.

To me too.

Bruce

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