Re: ACPI Global lock broken on amd64

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:44:22PM +0000, Steve Woodford wrote:
> 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.

OK, will do tomorrow.

Joerg