Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:02:04 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3) |
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On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> The TSC one is fairly sane, the CMOS gets messy because host and CMOS time > are not always the same
The idea is to read out the CMOS clock before and after polling the BIOS, hoping that the BIOS would not tamper with the CMOS time. However, thinking more elaborately, I think, CMOS is limited to 1 s, so the granularity will make the whole thing pretty vain.
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