Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Spurious interrupts

8259A programmable interrupt controller is famous for it's spurious interrupts. I haven't caught any on core i5 with intel chipset, but on a machine with AMD processor and GeForce 7025 chipset one is constantly bugging me right after I enable interrupts. It happens only once, so just having a spurious handler for it is fine.

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