Incaccuracy in the Handbook

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 21 January 2008 06:17:56 am sin at openportal.org.ua wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
> 
> Quote:
> "(for obscure technical reasons, IRQ2 = IRQ 9)"
> 
> Doesn't it seen to you that this sounds like a huge ignorance when stated in 
> a fundamental document like FreeBSD handbook? If you just want to omit some
> unnescessary technical details, maybe, you should rather just say "for 
> technical reasons" instead?
> 
> P.S. Just for that case if an author of this chapter didn't know why it happens
> that way:
> 
> "IRQ 2 - Cascaded signals from IRQs 8-15. A device configured to use IRQ 2 
> will actually be using IRQ 9"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_request

Perhaps s/obscure/obtuse/.  It actually is obscure to a lot of folks who
aren't intimately familiar with x86 internals.

-- 
John Baldwin