On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:

Is there no reasonable way to avoid using it in ACPI? It's not as if 
performance was critical there, or the code gets run often. Too bad it 
can't just be emulated like floating point, but I don't think it can on SMP.

 Well, "cmpxchg", "xadd", etc. can be easily emulated with an aid of a
spinlock.  With SMP operation included.

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