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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: do get_rtc_time() correctly
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:54:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C3A04E.7030205@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C399C1.9000502@reed.com>

On 08/16/2007 02:26 AM, David P. Reed wrote:

> My mention of NMI (which by definition can't be masked) is because NMI

Well, not by the CPU it can't, but on a PC, masking NMIs is a simple matter 
of setting bit 7 of I/O port 0x70 to 1 (it seems the kernel does not provide 
an interface for it though?).

Rene.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-16  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 19:22 RFC: do get_rtc_time() correctly David P. Reed
2007-08-15 23:51 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-16  0:26   ` David P. Reed
2007-08-16  0:54     ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-08-16 10:05     ` Alan Cox
2007-08-16  0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin

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