Hi! > > ... The primary issue is the concurrent access > > to resources, which cause lots of trouble which are hard to investigate. > > If ACPI reserves the ports, then the SMBus or hardware monitoring > > drivers (or any other conflicting driver) will cleanly fail to load, > > which would be a move in the right direction. ... > > > > So, can ACPI actually reserve the ports it accesses? > > Sorry to join this discussion so late. > > ACPI tells us the resources used by devices. Today, we don't > reserve Problem seems to be that ACPI does _not_ tell us which ports it accesses from AML code. But we already found a lock we can take; AFAICT we know how to solve this problem. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
