Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Dec 2003 01:42:34 -0800 | From | Paul Menage <> | Subject | Re: ACPI global lock macros |
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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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