an introductory kludge

First, I'd like to say that I hate blogger.com. They've lost my post 4 times now, so it's going to be real short.

I modified io_apic.c in the kernel sources so they returned level_triggered for anything that reported being on irq 11. That's not really a great idea, but the only effect I've noticed so far is that the computer hangs on boot about half the time. Once it's up, it seems to be fine.