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SubjectRe: Port of 3c575_cb to 2.3.43pre8
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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