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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Confine use of global rtc_state to PC CMOS functions
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:57:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A12E508.6000002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pre5twbh.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>

Markus Armbruster wrote:
> How does the hardware do it?  Does it update CMOS all by itself?
>   

I'm guessing the hardware only makes this present in a chipset 
register.  The BIOS reads the registers and writes the CMOS memory 
(which is likely on the same chip, but...).

Would be best to adopt that.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-19 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1241106809.git.armbru@redhat.com>
2009-04-30 16:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Confine use of global rtc_state to PC CMOS functions Markus Armbruster
2009-05-01 17:27   ` Blue Swirl
2009-05-04 13:54     ` Markus Armbruster
2009-05-05 16:22       ` Blue Swirl
2009-05-19  6:56         ` Markus Armbruster
2009-05-19 16:51           ` Blue Swirl
2009-05-19 16:57           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-30 16:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Remove global floppy_controller Markus Armbruster
2009-05-01 17:31   ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-30 16:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Give parse_macaddr() external linkage Markus Armbruster
2009-04-30 16:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Machine description as data Markus Armbruster

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