spurious 8259A interrupt?

2000-10-09 Thread Daniel Lange
Periodically, I get the following error with the 2.4.0test9 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I did not receive this error with the 2.0.36 kernel that came stock on my slack installation. However, 2 things have been changed; I configured the PAS16 to use IRQ7 (I don't recall its exact conf

kernel compilation question

2000-09-30 Thread Daniel Lange
I was perusing the makefiles, and I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the main kernel is compiled with gcc, and linked with standard ld, and only the bootloader code is compiled using the bin86 (as86, ld86) tools. Am I right in interpreting this to mean that the main kernel is/can be 32-b

/dev/f1

2000-09-19 Thread Daniel Lange
Hi all, I don't know how relevant to this list my question is, as I'm a quite new subscriber, but I was perusing the linux kernel (2.2.16) Makefiles and ran into this in /usr/src/linux/net/ethernet/Makefile: tar -cvf /dev/f1 . Since I do all my compiling for the i386 tree, I don't know if