Re: 'spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7'

[Ian Molton]

On a sunny Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:59:34 -0000 (GMT) Martin A. Brooks gathered
a sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal
words:

> 
> > With IO Apic support included ? If you are using an AMD/VIA combo
> > chipset board that would explain it
> 
> Yup
> 
> CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
> CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
> CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
> CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y

Same here.

what /is/ IOAPIC? I always turned it on, but never bothered to check up on
what it is (its safe to just have it, right?)