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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: "qemu-trivial@nongnu.org" <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On 05/31/2011 04:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-05-31 23:11, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 31.05.2011 um 21:49 schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>>> At one point in time, it was the only way to get a high res clock.
>>> Now, it Just Works provided you don't have an ancient kernel.
>>
>> I'm curious, what's ancient these days? 2.6.29 or more like 2.4.x?
>
> IIRC, highres timers started to work around 2.6.24 on x86. Anyone on
> such an old kernel is likely also not interested in updating QEMU.

Yeah, 2.6.24 is ancient now that we're in the 3.0 world ;-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Jan
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