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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Make rt_clock usage configurable
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To: andrzej zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Il 05/03/2012 15:05, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> > Direct usage of rt_clock should be discouraged. For RTC devices the user
>> > cannot choose to follow the host clock with respect to NTP adjustment
>> > and daylight savings changes.   For other devices it does not provide
>> > determinism together with -icount or qtest, and it also keeps ticking
>> > while the machine is paused.
>> >
>> > This series uses rtc_clock uniformly in device models that provide RTC
>> > functionality, and vm_clock in the omap_lpg whose ticking should be tied
>> > to the VM running state.  For consistency I'm also switching the pl031
>> > to rtc_clock; so far it used the vm_clock.
>> >
>> > v1->v2: switch omap_lpg to vm_clock
>> >
>> > Paolo Bonzini (5):
>> >  rtc: add -rtc clock=rt
>> >  omap: switch omap_lpg to vm_clock
>> >  arm: switch real-time clocks to rtc_clock
>> >  pl031: rearm alarm timer upon load
>> >  pl031: switch clock base to rtc_clock
> I'm happy to take these into the arm-devs tree, but I'd prefer to
> see an ack or review from somebody who understands qemu timers first.

Andrzej or Jan, would you take a look?

Paolo