Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:54:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stray interrupts in 4.0 Message-ID: <200007060054.RAA00500@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:06:13 EDT." <200007052257.SAA14253@etinc.com>
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> At 02:23 PM 7/1/00 -0700, you wrote: > >On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Dennis wrote: > > > >> We're seeing lots of "stray" interrupts in 4.0 while running 3.4 on the > >> same hardware reports nothing. The interrupt its complaining about is IRQ7 > >> even though parallel port is disabled and no other device. It happens on > >> more than 1 MB. > > > >This is in the archives and the FAQ at www.freebsd.org. This is normal. > > thanks for the "pointer", but searching the faq for "stray" returns zilch. > To which "archives" are you referring? The "stray irq7" message has been remarked on countless times. Having said that, our search tools are less than marvellous. 8( > Why is it "normal" to send hundreds of messages to the console? The term > "stray" implies abnormal. It's "normal" insofar as countless PC motherboards generate these spurious interrupts. However, we're anal enough to consider spurious interrupts "abnormal", and we kvetch about them. Generally this message indicates that you have hardware in the system that is not signalling interrupts correctly. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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