Re: ACPI global lock macros

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 04:58:36 EST


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:42:34AM -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> >maybe the odd thing is that it exists at all?
> >(eg why does ACPI need to have it's own locking primitives...)
>
> Because the ACPI spec defines its own locking protocol for
> synchronization between the OS and the BIOS.

... which can't be written based on linux locks ?
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