Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2012 14:08:54 +0100 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, resend] x86: enable rtc-efi |
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>>> On 15.05.12 at 14:38, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:08:22PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Besides a Kconfig change this just requires creating a corresponding >> platform device. > > I don't think this is a good idea yet - we completely fail to perform > timezone handling with the EFI clock, which violates platform > expectations. We should fix that up first.
So how is this driver okay on ia64 then? It's my understanding that either it's entirely broken, or should be used universally. That's the more that accessing the RTC directly isn't really being permitted by the EFI spec (i.e. using this driver really is a requirement, not an option).
Jan
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