On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:59, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > I guess sonypi could take the ACPI global lock ?
>
> I assume that's not a serious suggestion. Perhaps it could release the
> region while it's not _actually_ using it, and the ACPI code could be fixed
> to not touch regions which it doesn't own.
It isnt about regions. The microcontroller talks a message protocol,
much the same actually as most power microcontroller seem to do. Its
just Sony also added other stuff to the protocol.
Taking the acpi lock looks like its a generic way to deal with this
situation. Its made more important because a few sony laptops actually
require ACPI to do pci/irq setup
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