Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
>
> > parport0: irq 7 detected
>
> > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>
> > 7: 6 XT-PIC MPU-401 UART
>
> i believe IRQ7 is a tad overloaded here. Do you see any system instability
> when the spurious IRQ message appears? The parallel port and the sound
> card are both using IRQ7. Plus IRQ7 is the IRQ for the motherboard to
> report spurious interrupts (it's a bit more complex than this but thats
> the gist of it).
>
> but still, i do not yet understand why this happens now and didnt happen
> with earlier kernels, hm.
Ingo,
I just changed the mapping for the MPU-401 interrupt to IRQ 10.
So far the only system instability I've noticed was a XFree86
3.9.18 crash last night. When I looked at dmesg, there were
two new messages at the end:
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
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