Multiple hpet messages during boot

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 15 18:36:27 UTC 2010


Joel Dahl wrote:
> I noticed this during boot (HEAD from yesterday):
> 
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> hpet0: [FILTER]
> 
> Is it really necessary to print this 8 times?

HPET at present chipsets may use up to 8 IRQs. Driver registers filter
interrupt handlers for them. Interrupt handling code prints this.

If you boot with verbose, you may see that some network cards prints
alike things for the number of supported MSI/MSI-X interrupts.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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