From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: One Thousand Gnomes
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Subject: Re: Why efi_set_rtc_mmss() is never used?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:32:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140614173258.GF3463@olila.local.net-space.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140609134635.26abc019-mUKnrFFms3BCCTY1wZZT65JpZx93mCW/@public.gmane.org>
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:46:35PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 13:08:00 +0200
> Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As I can see efi_set_rtc_mmss() is never used to set RTC.
> > Even on EFI platform mach_set_rtc_mmss() is called and does
> > that thing. Why it is done in that way? It is a bug or it was
> > done intentionally. Am I missing something?
>
> EFI services generally don't work properly. The less they are used the
> better. We can realistically only make an EFI call with the same
> parameters windows does under the same kind of circumstances because the
> firmware on many motherboards is complete sh*te.
Thanks. Sadly it makes sens.
Daniel
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2014-06-09 11:08 Why efi_set_rtc_mmss() is never used? Daniel Kiper
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2014-06-09 12:46 ` One Thousand Gnomes
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2014-06-14 17:32 ` Daniel Kiper [this message]
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