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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: introduce mc146818rtcxen
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:21:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jadj8a$m4q$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC671AF.5030805@codemonkey.ws>

On 11/18/2011 03:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> The Right Solution would be to modify the RTC emulation such that it did
> a qemu_get_clock() during read of the CMOS registers in order to ensure
> the time was up to date (instead of using 1 second timers).

True, but you also have to handle UIP and the UF/AF interrupts. 
Basically you have to track the various pieces of state and trigger a 
timer when the routine would do something interesting.  It's not hard, 
but it's also a decent amount of programming.

Paolo

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: introduce mc146818rtcxen
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:21:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jadj8a$m4q$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC671AF.5030805@codemonkey.ws>

On 11/18/2011 03:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> The Right Solution would be to modify the RTC emulation such that it did
> a qemu_get_clock() during read of the CMOS registers in order to ensure
> the time was up to date (instead of using 1 second timers).

True, but you also have to handle UIP and the UF/AF interrupts. 
Basically you have to track the various pieces of state and trigger a 
timer when the routine would do something interesting.  It's not hard, 
but it's also a decent amount of programming.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15 14:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] prevent Qemu from waking up needlessly Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-15 14:48 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-15 14:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: introduce mc146818rtcxen stefano.stabellini
2011-11-15 14:51   ` stefano.stabellini
2011-11-15 14:54   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-15 14:54     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-15 16:57     ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-18 11:46       ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-18 11:46         ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-18 13:58         ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-18 13:58           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-18 14:54         ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-18 14:54           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-20 14:53           ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2011-11-20 14:53             ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-21 20:49             ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-11-21 20:49               ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-21 11:05           ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-21 11:05             ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-21 13:21           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-11-21 13:21             ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-15 14:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xen: do not initialize the interval timer emulator stefano.stabellini
2011-11-15 14:51   ` stefano.stabellini
2011-11-15 14:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen: introduce an event channel for buffered io event notifications stefano.stabellini
2011-11-15 14:51   ` stefano.stabellini
2011-11-15 17:13   ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-11-15 17:13     ` Ian Campbell
2011-11-15 17:20     ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-15 17:20       ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-15 17:24       ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-11-15 17:24         ` Ian Campbell
2011-11-15 14:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qemu_calculate_timeout: increase minimum timeout to 1h stefano.stabellini
2011-11-15 14:51   ` stefano.stabellini

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