Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:56:50 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:43 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:11 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > I get this message occasionally on both my machines. I googled and saw > > some references to this message on 2.4 but nothing for 2.6. Some of the > > references were to APIC, which I don't have enabled. > > > > Both machines are using VIA chipsets and display the "VIA IRQ fixup" > > message on boot. I think this behavior started about the same time that > > message started to appear. > > The VIA IRQ fixup in 2.6.11 is broken. It works for some, but > not all boxes with VIA hardware. > > There's a fix in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. Actually, I doubt that it will > help you, though -- the 2.6.11 breakage is such that some machines > that need the fixup don't get it (and don't print the "VIA IRQ > fixup message"). >
Is the VIA IRQ fixup related to the "spurious interrupts" messages in any way? Googling the 2.4 threads on the issue gave me the impression that it's related to broken hardware. I think excessive disk activity might trigger it.
Anyway it's low priority as the message appears to be completely harmless.
Lee
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