[ANN] IRQ Latency tool 0.1.3 release.

[Takashi Oe]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> There's indeed a global lock on the console, to prevent multiple accesses to
> the console at once. This solves some problems, one being that some graphics
> hardware crashes when both the CPU and the graphics accelerator touch the video
> RAM at the same time.

Would it be difficult to make the lock per fbdev thing?  If the
CPU/accelerator clash is the only reason for the global lock, we can
certainly remove that for hardware which doesn't have that kind of
problem, can't we?


Takashi Oe


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