From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: dannf@dannf.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
matt.fleming@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] x86: enable rtc-efi
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:16:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120515131637.GA26038@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB271860200007800083D21@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:08:54PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> So how is this driver okay on ia64 then? It's my understanding
> that either it's entirely broken, or should be used universally.
> That's the more that accessing the RTC directly isn't really being
> permitted by the EFI spec (i.e. using this driver really is a
> requirement, not an option).
ia64 is basically never dual booted. If there's an RTC in the ACPI
tables then it's completely valid to use the legacy RTC.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-15 12:08 [PATCH, resend] x86: enable rtc-efi Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 12:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-15 12:41 ` Matt Fleming
2012-05-15 12:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-15 13:08 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 13:16 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-05-15 13:22 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 13:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-15 13:36 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 13:40 ` Matthew Garrett
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