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On 12-Jul-2002 Moore, Robert wrote:
> 
> The ACPI Global Lock is a hardware mutex between the ACPI BIOS and the OS.
> It cannot be "simulated" with a kernel mutex.

Oh, ok. :)  Perhaps our atomic operations API can be used to make the code
a bit more readable and possibly not require it to be MD.

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