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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 1996 05:27:27 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: sio problems with 2.2-960801-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199608141927.FAA01058@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> Aug  8 11:52:22 plato /kernel.2.2: stray irq 4
>> Aug  8 11:52:41 plato last message repeated 3 times
>> Aug  8 11:53:55 plato /kernel.2.2: stray irq 4
>> Aug  8 11:53:55 plato /kernel.2.2: too many stray irq 4's; not logging any more
>> Aug  8 12:15:41 plato /kernel.2.2: stray irq 3

>Basically, there's something screwed with your interrupt
>configuration.  Stray irq's are not supposed to happen for a
>configured driver, they are generated by catch-all code inside
>the ISA bus controller driver, thus a strong indication that
>your IRQs never reach the sio driver.

The catch-all code delivers stray IRQs to IRQ7 (and maybe to
IRQ15).  `stray irq 4' simply means that an IRQ4 occurred
but no driver is attached to IRQ4.  I don't know how this can
happen.  If there is no driver attached to an IRQ, then that
IRQ is masked, except for the catch-all IRQ7.

Bruce



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