kernel: stray irq7

[Ian Smith]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
 > Ian Smith wrote:
 > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
 > >  > Ian Smith wrote:
 > >  > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
 > >  > >
 > >  > >  > I have FreeBSD -CURRENT as of  Mon Jul 17 20:06:47 AST 2006 on my
 > >  > >  > Toshiba Tecra A4 on my laptop and I keep on getting kernel: stray irq7
 > >  > >  > messages in my syslog and dmesg
 > >  > >  > 
 > >  > >  > I have absolutely no idea what does it mean except that it is related to
 > >  > >  > irq(s) somehow!
 > >  > >
 > >  > > % dmesg | grep 'irq 7'
 > >  > > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Does your Tecra have a parallel port?  Is it connected to anything?
 > >
 > >  > Actually I do have a parallel port (DB25) that is not connected to
 > >  > anything, but when I grep that, I get:
 > >  >  dmesg -a | grep ppc0
 > >  > ppc0: parallel port not found

Er, no mention at all of ppc0 turned up in the verbose dmesg posted.

 > > Well that's not good news if you want it - maybe needs enabling in BIOS? 

Have you checked that it appears in BIOS? ie before booting up anything?

 > > It might pay to do a verbose-message boot and check dmesg carefully.
 > >
 > >   
 > I have the verbose dmesg at the bottom.

This is beyond me.  Hopefully somebody else will spot something odd?

 > >  > stray irq7
 > >  > 
 > >  > Does this help?
 > >
 > > Maybe related, but the irq 11 storm associated with cbb0 and iwi0 you
 > > reported to David W looks like more of a worry; I'll dip out of that.
 > >
 > > |> irq11: cbb0 iwi0+*                323649         13
 > >
 > > Cheers, Ian
 > >
 > >   
 > mem: <memory>
 > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
 > null: <null device, zero device>
 > ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
 > rr232x: RocketRAID 232x controller driver v1.02 (Jul 17 2006 20:06:31)
 > npx0: INT 16 interface
 > acpi0: <INSYDE RSDT_000> on motherboard
 > acpi0: [MPSAFE]
 > pci_open(1):    mode 1 addr port (0x0cf8) is 0x80010014
 > pci_open(1a):   mode1res=0x80000000 (0x80000000)
 > pci_cfgcheck:   device 0 [class=060000] [hdr=00] is there (id=25908086)
 > pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
 > Found $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00fe840
 > PCI-Only Interrupts: none

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Cheers, Ian