Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:49:33 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [1/5] Only do century BCD conversion when we know the RTC is BCD |
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Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > >>> So the warning comes a bit late :) >> I suspect if this was wrong before it would not have been noticed >> because user space hwclock would work around it. > > And how exaclty does it work aroalund ? By setting the binary cmos clock > with BCD values ?
By reading the value directly from CMOS I suppose and checking the BCD bit and then setting the clock to the correct value [all theoretical; i have not checked the hwclock code if it does that or not. It might be wrong. Just a hypothesis.]
-Andi
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