it is very slow to access to EC on some machines (i.e. CASIO FIVA 2xx).
- clean the flags up.
- add locks while updating informations.
- some cosmetic changes.
acpi_is_global_locked() functions.
AcpiGlobalLock() API should be used to acquire lock between BIOS and OS.
This API cannot be used to lock between threads of the OS side,
because this function immediately returns if the lock is already acquired
by the OS. c.f. AcpiEvAcquireGlobalLock()@evmisc.c
- make sure that acpiec driver uses above functions.
- use ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER instead of twice calls of AcpiEvaluateObject(),
in acpi_eval_string()/acpi_eval_struct().
Twice AcpiEvaluateObject() calls may cause twice side effects
to ACPI machine / hardware and this may be wrong in some cases.
in mii_readreg()/mii_writereg(). Also restore this bit based on the
currently selected media instance every time we need to reinitialise
the interface.
what the rest of the pseudo-device attach infrastructure expects. It
didn't cause any harm that the function signature was wrong because it
ignored what it was passed.
Put in code that, if enabled, makes *my* copper Sundance TI cards work-
promiscuous mode is needed for this for now. The default is to have this
off until I or somebody figures out what is broken- I think it's stuff
with the Marvell PHY.
also if the font is static (and thus it's 'data' point to const/text location) -
later call to wsfont_rev{bit,byte}() needs to change the font data in-place
print info about the font copy when it's made
problem pointed out by Matthias Drochner
than to use the one configured by EISA, and perhaps had some other side
effects - according to Pavel Cahyna, NOT doing the reset improved receive
performance significantly.
This also resolves old thread on current-users regarding this EISA card.
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