Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:51:55 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Port of 3c575_cb to 2.3.43pre8 |
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:47:16AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > Please learn facts and do not spread myths -- someone less experienced > > > might actually believe you... > > > > You, sir, are one spreading myths. > > Unfortunately Alan is right. On my MIPS ISA boxes I've often seen the > i8259 interrupt 7 being triggered. Some drivers actually will barf when > the interrupt handler is triggered while the device didn't. You may also > checkout arch/ppc/kernel/i8259.c:i8259_irq() which has special treatment > for interrupt 7. >
I checked out the mess made of the original 8259 code and it makes me barf.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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