Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 May 2005 12:34:49 +1000 | From | Horms <> | Subject | Re: RTC problem on 8208CA |
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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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