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		geertj on Nov 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why ACPI? For this use case (hardware configuration), that might actually be desirable?

monocasa on Nov 1, 2023 [–]

I don't think you'll get uptake removing constructs like

    while(*STATUS_REG & STATUS_BSY);

since AML is less a hardware description format and more a driver binary format.

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