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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:18:54 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] Refactor and enhance RTC
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> No, it isn't.  To introduce -rtc properly, you should use QemuOpts.  We
>> shouldn't be introducing new options that don't conform to QemuOpts
>> syntax and the best way to do that is to just use QemuOpts.
>>     
>
> Yes, QemuOpts is a must-have for -rtc. So you agree to introduce -rtc
> (in addition to the qdev-based configuration, of course)?
>   

Yup.

  

>> Hard to say.  Doesn't the rtc keep track of wallclock time even on power
>> off?  I think using host_clock unconditionally does actually make sense.
>>
>>     
>
> Moreover, quite a few (of not all?) other RTCs use the host time
> already. Well, I would be happy to avoid that 'clock' knob. So if there
> are no concerns, I will unconditionally switch MC146818 to host_clock.
>   

Regards,

Anthony Liguori