Re: ACPI Global lock broken on amd64

[Steve Woodford <scw%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Friday 15 February 2008 16:21:08 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:44:02PM +0000, Steve Woodford wrote:
> > I've attached a patch (which re-syncs the amd64 asm code with the
> > i386 version) which I'd like the amd64 asm experts to review. With
> > this patch, normal ACPI service is resumed (FSVO "normal").
>
> Let's get rid of it once and for all. We can implement the same
> logic using atomic_case_32 in C code.

That would be preferable to two subtly different asm versions. I'll hold 
off committing my fix for now, on the expectation that someone more 
familiar with the code will re-implement it in C.

Cheers, Steve