Re: Unknown interrupt

Etienne Lorrain (lorrain@fb.sony.de)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:52:36 +0001


> I just noticed that 2.1.90 (my first SMP kernel with SMP board) -> 2.1.93
> give:
>
> Apr 7 20:43:55 moving kernel: Linux version 2.1.93 (root@moving) (gcc
> version 2.8.1) #3 SMP Tue Apr 7 19:19:11 EDT 1998
> Apr 7 20:43:55 moving kernel: Unknown interrupt
> Apr 7 21:16:13 moving kernel: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
> Apr 7 21:16:13 moving kernel: Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
>
> Doesn't look harmful but probably shouldn't be there...
> ..........
>
> CPU0 CPU1
> 8: 0 1 IO-APIC rtc
>
> Too bad it doesn't say which interrupt number it received.
> (And I don't do asm well enough to try.)
>

Hi,

Probably your BIOS has programmed the RTC to generate an IRQ8
few microseconds after the boot (APM enabled in BIOS ?). Or IRQ8
was pending.

my $0.01,
Etienne.
----------- etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
-- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
-- ide1: reset: success
----------> I like Linux !

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