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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:11:44 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Olivier Saut <Olivier.Saut@crans.ens-cachan.fr>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stray irq 7
Message-ID:  <20000327101144.B91280@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20000325150845.A2983@mychkine.crans.ens-cachan.fr>; from Olivier Saut on Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 03:08:45PM %2B0100
References:  <20000325150845.A2983@mychkine.crans.ens-cachan.fr>

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On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 03:08:45PM +0100, Olivier Saut wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am now running 4.0-STABLE for a week. 
> I now have periodically in my logs :
> stray irq 7
> stray irq 7
> stray irq 7
> stray irq 7
> stray irq 7
> too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more
> 
> Before I was running 3-STABLE for a year without any message of this
> kind.
> 
> The irq #7 doesn't seem to be used by my system.
> 
> Looking in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/intr_machdep.c : 
> 	 * Well the reason you got bursts of intr #7 is because someone
> 	 * raised an interrupt line and dropped it before the 8259 could
> 	 * prioritize it.  This is documented in the intel data book.
> 	 * This means you have BAD hardware!  I have changed this so
> 	 * that only the first 5 get logged, then it quits logging them,
> 	 * and puts out a special message. rgrimes 3/25/1993
> 
> Is this still correct?
> 
See http://support.intel.com/support/controllers/peripheral/7507.htm

> Should I care about it? Bad hardware?
> 
> The source then mentions :
> 	/*
> 	 * XXX TODO print a different message for #7 if it is
> 	 * for a glitch.  Glitches can be distinguished from
> 	 * real #7's by testing that the in-service bit is _not_
> 	 * set.  The test must be done before sending an EOI so
> 	 * it can't be done if we are using AUTO_EOI_1.
> 	 */
> 
> but this is far too complicated for me :-)
> 
> 
> I am running :
> FreeBSD mychkine.crans.ens-cachan.fr 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD
> 4.0-STABLE #23: Sun Mar 19 22:51:34 CET 2000
> root@mychkine.crans.ens-cachan.fr:/usr/src/sys/compile/mychkine  i386
> 
> on a Dell Latitude CPi.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> PS could you CC me on your answer, I am not subscribed to -questions.
> 
> - Olivier
> 
> Olivier.Saut@dptMaths.ENS-Cachan.Fr | ID 0x7673A2CE


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