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Date:      Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:58:54 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IRQ entropy causes panics? 
Message-ID:  <199901080658.IAA17036@greenpeace.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of " Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:31:22 PST." <19990106003122.A1906@wattres.Watt.COM> 
References:  <19990106003122.A1906@wattres.Watt.COM> 

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Steve Watt wrote:
> I have just finished setting up my 2.2.8-STABLE box, and I just noticed an
> "interesting" bug.  If one configures the rand_irq in rc.conf to be a
> reasonable-seeming set (the PCI bus 0 irq and some serial ports that only
> get used for UUCP), the system seems to become quite unstable, and panics
> fairly regularly (every few hours, but quite variable) with a stack trace
> very similar to:

Don't hook Irq 0, it is not very random; hook your serial ports, SCSI
controller and Ethernet card; those all work pretty well.

M
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