Re: ACPI global lock macros
From: Paul Menage
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 04:47:08 EST
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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