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Subject: Re: IRQ problem on cobalt / 2.6.6
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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>On Tue, 18 May 2004, Kieran Fulke wrote:
>
>  
>
>>alas, no joy.
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>>
>[...]
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>
>>VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586a (rev 27) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci0000:00:09.1
>>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>>spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ9.
>>    
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>
> Hmm, interesting.  As the 8259A can only signal IRQ7 and possibly IRQ15
>as spurious interrupts, this smells like a bug in 8259A handlers,
>regardless of system-specific problems you have.
>
>  
>
We were getting interrupt 23 and calling do_IRQ() with a value of 9 (a 
bug, obviously). Interrupt 9 is masked so we get a "spurious 8259A 
interrupt" message.

P.