From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Lawson Subject: RE: [PATCH] Stall semantics Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20031003134805.B92196@root.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Moore, Robert" Cc: Matthew Wilcox , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org I'm ok with this. The longest Stall I've seen in ASL is 200 us (VAIO PCG-F) so I believe their limit is the ad-hoc standard. -Nate On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Moore, Robert wrote: > Here's what the MS interpreter does for Stall(n); > > 1) If n <= 255 (MAX_BYTE), perform the stall. > 2) If n > 255, throw an error and abort the control method. > > In this case, I suggest that we simply duplicate the MS behavior, it > seems like a good compromise and also provides ACPI CA with exact > compatibility. > > Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf