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From: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: seabios@seabios.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add acpi pmtimer support
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:47:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813224707.GA6299@morn.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344863050-8959-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:04:10PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> This patch makes seabios use the acpi pmtimer instead of tsc for
> timekeeping.  The pmtimer has a fixed frequency and doesn't need
> calibration, thus it doesn't suffer from calibration errors due to a
> loaded host machine.

It looks okay to me.  It'd be nice to have a CONFIG_PMTIMER for it,
but it can be added on top.

-Kevin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 13:04 [PATCH] add acpi pmtimer support Gerd Hoffmann
2012-08-13 22:31 ` [PATCH] add acpi pmtimer support\ Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-13 22:47 ` Kevin O'Connor [this message]

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