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From: AnonimoVeneziano <voloterreno@tin.it>
To: vph@iki.fi
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ????
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:16:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2F0A20.20603@tin.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030122200630.GA17220@vph.iki.fi>

Ville Hallivuori wrote:

>>I wouldn't necessarily assume a hardware problem (unless we also include 
>>chipset oddities). I get *exactly* one message stating exactly this per 
>>boot, and it always come a few seconds after loading the parport and 
>>parport_pc modules.
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>Jan 20 09:20:07 testing kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>>    
>>
>
>I also see this message on every boot... I have two Soyo
>SY-KT400 Dragon Ultra mother boards, and the message appears with both
>of them. Perhaps it is some VIA oddity?. Anyhow, it does not seem to
>have any harmful effects (both boards are rock solid with 2.4.20).
>
>Dec 23 20:34:37 mood kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
>Dec 23 20:34:37 mood kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>
>
>  
>
When I enable I/O APIC the problem disappear , it is present only if I 
enable Local APIC. There is a possibility that that IRQ is an IRQ of I/O 
APIC , and when it is disabled it isn't initialized with Local APIC only 
. In this case the message can be ignored without any preoccupations

Bye

Marcello


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-22 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-21  0:06 Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 ???? AnonimoVeneziano
2003-01-21  0:36 ` David D. Hagood
2003-01-21  1:43   ` Coax
2003-01-21  3:20   ` Alan
2003-01-21  5:22   ` Tupshin Harper
2003-01-21  7:00     ` Paul
2003-01-22 20:06     ` Ville Hallivuori
2003-01-22 20:53       ` Pavel Janík
2003-01-22 21:16       ` AnonimoVeneziano [this message]
2003-01-21 13:37   ` AnonimoVeneziano
2003-01-21 13:54     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-21 23:53 ` Tom Vier
2003-01-23 22:14   ` Zsolt Babak
2003-01-23 23:56     ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-01-24 19:54 ` AnonimoVeneziano
2003-01-24 21:07   ` Herman Oosthuysen

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