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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:42:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bcmai: introduce AI driver
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2011/4/6 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
> If we want to have two drivers working on two (different) cores
> simultaneously, we will have to add trivial mutex to group core
> switching with core operation (read/write).

With a little of work we could avoid switching and mutexes on no-host
boards. MMIO is not limited to one core at once in such a case.

-- 
Rafał
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