Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans-Peter Jansen <> | Subject | Re: spurious 8259A interrupt | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:58:07 +0100 |
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On Friday 19 March 2004 14:48, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > The IRQ7 spurious is usually an artifact of a crappy motherboard > design where the CPU "thinks" it was interrupted, but the > controller didn't wiggle the CPUs INT line.
Thanks for the nice explanation, Richard.
I even see them on my x86_64 box in 64 bit mode. (K8VT800 based) Furtunately only occasionally.
I thought, AMD took the chance to fix that kind of crap in the new architecture, but obviously they failed in this respect :-(
Pete
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