Re: ACPI global lock macros

[Paul Menage]

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.

Paul

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