Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:42:17 -0800 From: Christopher Knight <merlin@ghostwheel.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall/qcam problem with 2.2-stable Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19971215104217.0093aa00@amber.ghostwheel.com> In-Reply-To: <199712151213.XAA28082@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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At 11:13 PM 12/15/97 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: >> Dec 15 00:28:28 amber /kernel: stray irq 7 > >This is probably correct behaviour. Using irq 7 in a driver breaks >reporting of stray interrupts. This may be a dumb newbie question... but why is a stray interrupt 7 generated when sysinstall is run? >> OK, I modified the qcam0 device to snag irq 7 in the same manner >>that was used for the now disabled lpt0: >> >>device qcam0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty irq 7 > >Don't do that. qcam doesn't use interrupts, and this line is missing >a vector for the interrupt. The configuration error is not detected >by config, and this line happens to be equivalent to: > >device qcam0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty irq 7 vector 0 Thank you for the explanation. I knew there is a reason I should not be tweaking my box, in areas I have little experience, when I'm having a sleepless night. :) -ck
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