On Monday 21 January 2008 06:17:56 am sin@openportal.org.ua wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
>
> Quote:
> "(for obscure technical reasons, IRQ2 = IRQ 9)"
>
> Doesn't it seen to you that this sounds like a huge ignorance when stated in
> a fundamental document like FreeBSD handbook? If you just want to omit some
> unnescessary technical details, maybe, you should rather just say "for
> technical reasons" instead?
>
> P.S. Just for that case if an author of this chapter didn't know why it happens
> that way:
>
> "IRQ 2 - Cascaded signals from IRQs 8-15. A device configured to use IRQ 2
> will actually be using IRQ 9"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_request
Perhaps s/obscure/obtuse/. It actually is obscure to a lot of folks who
aren't intimately familiar with x86 internals.
--
John Baldwin
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