From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 31 1:47:40 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC2737B65D; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0V9lie06043; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:47:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200101310947.f0V9lie06043@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Smith Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica/Osd OsdSynch.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:35:50 PST." <200101310935.f0V9ZoL45564@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:47:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > msmith 2001/01/31 01:35:50 PST > > Modified files: > sys/dev/acpica/Osd OsdSynch.c > Log: > Add some debugging. > > Turn off semaphores. Nobody else implements them, and there is lots of > AML out there which does totally absurd things with them, meaning that > if we try to do the right thing we are guaranteed to fail. Anyone that was having problems with ACPI hanging on their systems should try again; I'm pretty sure that a lot of our problems were stemming from deadlocks caused by us being the only OS to actually *implement* synchronisation primitives for ACPI... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message