From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>,
"matt.fleming@intel.com" <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rtc-efi: register rtc-efi device when EFI enabled
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:42:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50DE3C8F.4000405@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E99CBA9F97C3D149AA6B19ED2E277C9B0192169D@BY2PRD0510MB365.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>
On 12/28/2012 03:39 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:32 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> No, that is explicitly the ordering that is excludable.
>
> Windows uses the UEFI time functions. The fact that they fail for us on
> a bunch of systems is just another symptom of our general failure to
> accurately mimic Windows when making runtime calls, and we should just
> make sure that that gets fixed rather than layering more workarounds on
> top. It's an embarrassment that we're still unable to deal with
> platforms that work fine with another OS.
>
Are they using them in preference to ACPI? This seems a bit odd, since
one can presume that the ACPI functions were added at Microsoft's request...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-29 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-28 16:26 [PATCH 1/3] rtc-efi: register rtc-efi device when EFI enabled Lee, Chun-Yi
2012-12-28 16:26 ` Lee, Chun-Yi
[not found] ` <1356712001-12198-1-git-send-email-jlee-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-28 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] rtc-efi: add timezone to rtc_time that will used by rtc-efi Lee, Chun-Yi
2012-12-28 16:26 ` Lee, Chun-Yi
2012-12-28 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] rtc-efi: set uie_unsupported for indicate rtc-efi doesn't support UIE mode Lee, Chun-Yi
2012-12-28 16:26 ` Lee, Chun-Yi
2012-12-28 17:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] rtc-efi: register rtc-efi device when EFI enabled Matthew Garrett
2012-12-28 17:43 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <E99CBA9F97C3D149AA6B19ED2E277C9B019215CC-kSjp6dTd0Hr1oIOzUjSfqB1/qY2kGW66nBOFsp37pqbUKgpGm//BTAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-28 19:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-28 19:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-28 19:17 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-28 19:17 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <E99CBA9F97C3D149AA6B19ED2E277C9B019215FA-kSjp6dTd0Hr1oIOzUjSfqB1/qY2kGW66nBOFsp37pqbUKgpGm//BTAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-28 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-28 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <50DE03D8.9030902-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-28 20:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-28 20:49 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <35da3df5-ecac-4b57-83a2-828326e5bfc3@email.android.com>
[not found] ` <35da3df5-ecac-4b57-83a2-828326e5bfc3-2ueSQiBKiTY7tOexoI0I+QC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-28 23:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-28 23:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-29 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2012-12-29 4:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-29 4:37 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <E99CBA9F97C3D149AA6B19ED2E277C9B01921744-kSjp6dTd0Hr1oIOzUjSfqB1/qY2kGW66nBOFsp37pqbUKgpGm//BTAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-29 5:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-29 5:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <ed3971f1-8464-4406-bae2-eff914c9c2fc-2ueSQiBKiTY7tOexoI0I+QC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-29 6:17 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-12-29 6:17 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <E99CBA9F97C3D149AA6B19ED2E277C9B01921638-kSjp6dTd0Hr1oIOzUjSfqB1/qY2kGW66nBOFsp37pqbUKgpGm//BTAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-28 23:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-28 23:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <50DE2EED.9030608-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-02 2:45 ` joeyli
2013-01-02 2:45 ` joeyli
[not found] ` <1357094751.6113.253.camel-ONCj+Eqt86TasUa73XJKwA@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-02 7:26 ` Matt Fleming
2013-01-02 7:26 ` Matt Fleming
2012-12-29 1:00 ` joeyli
[not found] ` <1356742803.6113.245.camel-ONCj+Eqt86TasUa73XJKwA@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-29 1:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-29 1:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <50DE4259.7090409-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-09 6:23 ` joeyli
2013-01-09 6:23 ` joeyli
[not found] ` <1357712591.6113.389.camel-ONCj+Eqt86TasUa73XJKwA@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-09 6:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-09 6:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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