svn commit: r40592 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

Eitan Adler eadler at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 13 05:44:25 UTC 2013


Author: eadler
Date: Sun Jan 13 05:44:24 2013
New Revision: 40592
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40592

Log:
   "likely can be deleted stray IRQ is no longer a FAQ. It was an ISA card
  issue."
  
  Noted by:	imp
  Approved by:	bcr (mentor)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun Jan 13 05:43:14 2013	(r40591)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sun Jan 13 05:44:24 2013	(r40592)
@@ -2840,46 +2840,6 @@ chip1 at pci0:31:5:        class=0x040100 c
       </qandaentry>
 
       <qandaentry>
-	<question id="stray-irq">
-	  <para>What does <errorname>stray IRQ</errorname> mean?</para>
-	</question>
-
-	<answer>
-	  <para>Stray IRQs are indications of hardware IRQ glitches,
-	    mostly from hardware that removes its interrupt request in
-	    the middle of the interrupt request acknowledge
-	    cycle.</para>
-
-	  <para>One has three options for dealing with this:</para>
-
-	  <itemizedlist>
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Live with the warnings.  All except the first 5 per
-		irq are suppressed anyway.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Break the warnings by changing the value of
-		<varname>MAX_STRAY_LOG</varname> from
-		<literal>5</literal> to <literal>0</literal> in your
-		platform's (e.g., &i386;)
-		<filename>intr_machdep.c</filename> and rebuild the
-		new kernel and all the warnings will be
-		suppressed.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Break the warnings by installing parallel port
-		hardware that uses IRQ 7 and the PPP driver for it
-		(this happens on most systems), and install an ide drive
-		or other hardware that uses IRQ 15 and a suitable
-		driver for it.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-	  </itemizedlist>
-	</answer>
-      </qandaentry>
-
-      <qandaentry>
 	<question id="file-table-full">
 	  <para>Why does <errorname>file: table is full</errorname> show
 	    up repeatedly in &man.dmesg.8;?</para>


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