On Wed, 07 Dec 2005, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > The BIOS logs the events and does fan controls based on the interrupts of > w83792. But BIOS always enables interrupt of W83792 even when miniBMC is > disabled because BIOS needs it for fan controls. Maybe I am asking something too stupid, but what would happen if there is a race condition between the linux kernel and the BIOS APM code and both try to access the chip at the same time? A Linux kernel spinlock won't protect the chip against rogue hardware access by the BIOS, unless that GPIO interrupt is disabled in the South Bridge. -- "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
