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SubjectRe: RTC problem on 8208CA
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:25:41PM -0700, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> At a glance this sounds like the case of having the HPET enabled causes
> the RTC IRQ functionality to become crippled or non-functional. The
> concept of hwclock using alarm or similar to handle broken and
> misconfigured hardware is a sensible idea.

Thanks for the advice. I guess I was holding onto an idea
that it could be fixed in the kernel - but you are right,
the user-space work around is a simple solution to this
buggy hardware.

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Horms
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