[pups] Stray Interupts
Robin Birch
robin at ruffnready.co.uk
Mon Feb 26 07:02:52 AEST 2001
Rats,
This means that it won't be simple to fix!!!!!!!!
It could mean that running Ultrix on a simulator isn't on without some
work on the emulators themselves. When the SI message is generated it
comes out with a number that looks like an address. Would this point to
the source of the interrupt? On p11 it is a constant address, I just
can't remember what it is for the moment.
Cheers
Robin
In message <200102251848.f1PImpn25642 at moe.2bsd.com>, Steven M. Schultz
<sms at moe.2bsd.com> writes
>> From: Robin Birch <robin at ruffnready.co.uk>
>>
>> Having got to the point where I can get ultrix trying to boot on p11 I
>> can confirm that it complains of stray interrupts on p11 as well. A
>> thought occurred to me over the weekend that I haven't had time to try
>> out. Is this the toy clock. It is certainly built into p11, is it
>> built into Bob Supnik's emulator and if so, does it generate interrupts?
>>
> As Billy pointed out the TOY clock does not generate interrupts. The
> line frequency clock does but the TOY clock does not.
>
> Looking at the Ultrix-3.1 sources I found something that may be
> relevant in sys/errlog.c:
>
>/*
> * Log a stray device interrupt.
> *
> * A stray interrupt is defined as one that occurs for
> * a configured device through a valid vector address,
> * but is unexpected. In the case of big disks, a stray
> * interrupt is logged when the interrupt service routine
> * is entered and the device is not active and no attention
> * summary bits are set.
> */
>
> One guess is that other systems do not use or concern themselves with
> 'attention summary' bits and simply dismiss the interrupt without
> comment.
>
> Looking at the errlogs (I do not know what the commands for doing that
> are but a big of digging would probably find them) might yield more
> information.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Steven Schultz
> sms at moe.2bsd.com
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