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On Llu, 2004-03-29 at 23:07, Len Brown wrote: > Linux uses this locking mechanism to coordinate shared access > to hardware registers with embedded controllers, > which is true also on uniprocessors too. If the ACPI layer simply refuses to run on a CPU without cmpxchg then I can't see there being a problem, there don't appear to be any 386 processors with ACPI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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