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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] powerpc 2.6.16-rt17: to build on powerpc w/ RT
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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> You might take a peek at the patch set here:
> http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/ for a somewhat rough powerpc conversion to
> CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME.

Afaik, as-is, this patch will remove updating of the various bits used
by the vDSO for userland gettimeofday without actually removing the vdso
itself. Thus, with a recent glibc, it will break gettimeofday,
clock_gettime, .... Pretty bad :)

Ben.