Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:42:55 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] rtc-efi: register rtc-efi device when EFI enabled |
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On 12/28/2012 03:39 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:32 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> No, that is explicitly the ordering that is excludable. > > Windows uses the UEFI time functions. The fact that they fail for us on > a bunch of systems is just another symptom of our general failure to > accurately mimic Windows when making runtime calls, and we should just > make sure that that gets fixed rather than layering more workarounds on > top. It's an embarrassment that we're still unable to deal with > platforms that work fine with another OS. >
Are they using them in preference to ACPI? This seems a bit odd, since one can presume that the ACPI functions were added at Microsoft's request...
-hpa
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