svn commit: r40592 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 13 05:44:25 UTC 2013
Author: eadler
Date: Sun Jan 13 05:44:24 2013
New Revision: 40592
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40592
Log:
"likely can be deleted stray IRQ is no longer a FAQ. It was an ISA card
issue."
Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun Jan 13 05:43:14 2013 (r40591)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun Jan 13 05:44:24 2013 (r40592)
@@ -2840,46 +2840,6 @@ chip1 at pci0:31:5: class=0x040100 c
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
- <question id="stray-irq">
- <para>What does <errorname>stray IRQ</errorname> mean?</para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>Stray IRQs are indications of hardware IRQ glitches,
- mostly from hardware that removes its interrupt request in
- the middle of the interrupt request acknowledge
- cycle.</para>
-
- <para>One has three options for dealing with this:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Live with the warnings. All except the first 5 per
- irq are suppressed anyway.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Break the warnings by changing the value of
- <varname>MAX_STRAY_LOG</varname> from
- <literal>5</literal> to <literal>0</literal> in your
- platform's (e.g., &i386;)
- <filename>intr_machdep.c</filename> and rebuild the
- new kernel and all the warnings will be
- suppressed.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Break the warnings by installing parallel port
- hardware that uses IRQ 7 and the PPP driver for it
- (this happens on most systems), and install an ide drive
- or other hardware that uses IRQ 15 and a suitable
- driver for it.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
<question id="file-table-full">
<para>Why does <errorname>file: table is full</errorname> show
up repeatedly in &man.dmesg.8;?</para>
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