Subject: Re: oddities on a DS10
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/08/2001 10:44:29
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:22:09AM -0800, James Sharp wrote:
>
>  > [ snip ]
>  > mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70
>  > stray isa irq10
>  > stray isa irq10
>  > stray isa irq10
>  > stray isa irq10
>  >
>  > [ snip ]
>  > root sd0a dumps on sd0b
>  > sysctl: adding
>
> You're using a serial console, I guess... can you try to see what's at
> isa irq 10?

Yeah, serial console.  I looked through the dmesg and I didn't see
anything at irq10.

>
> This seems like the "16 bytes of death" bug that used to happen on
> systems with serial consoles, which Ross fixed by sending a specific
> EOI to the ISA interrupt controller...  I'm kind of puzzled over why
> it would show up on your DS10...

I didn't have any problems with the installation kernel...which is what I
find a little strange.