On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> Anybody got any candidates for a series of transactions that would
> benefit from this mode?  If yes, is it possible to detect an efficiency
> benefit from enabling burst mode for that series?

ibm-acpi would like a lot to have burst-mode for EC dumps (read of 256 EC
registers), and for thermal reading (two bursts of eight register reads, or
one of sixteen non-contiguous reads if that is possible -- I need to read
the ACPI spec on the burst mode).

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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