cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa atpic.c

[Peter Wemm]

David Schultz wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> > jhb         2003/11/19 07:40:23 PST
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/i386/isa         atpic.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Add a special check for a stray IRQ 7 or IRQ 15 to see if it is actually
> >   a spurious interrupt from one of the 8259As.  If so, don't log it as a
> >   stray IRQ, but just silently ignore it.
> 
> Nice.  I've been waiting for years for someone who understood the
> full flakiness of the i8259 to fix the spurious messages.

Heh. sys/amd64/isa/ithread.c rev 1.22 had code to do this since may 1st,
but John discovered that I managed to invert some of the bit definitions.
It is amazing what you can discover when you actually read the data sheets.
:-)

Cheers,
-Peter
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