On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Len Brown wrote: > Anybody got any candidates for a series of transactions that would > benefit from this mode? If yes, is it possible to detect an efficiency > benefit from enabling burst mode for that series? ibm-acpi would like a lot to have burst-mode for EC dumps (read of 256 EC registers), and for thermal reading (two bursts of eight register reads, or one of sixteen non-contiguous reads if that is possible -- I need to read the ACPI spec on the burst mode). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
