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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 06/14] rtc-efi: register rtc-efi device when EFI enabled
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於 五,2013-12-20 於 17:51 -0800,H. Peter Anvin 提到:
> On 12/20/2013 05:24 PM, joeyli wrote:
> > 於 五,2013-12-20 於 13:04 -0800,H. Peter Anvin 提到:
> >>
> >> Actually, it doesn't have to reprogram the clock ... it just needs to
> >> know if another OS has already done so. All Linux needs to do is to be
> >> able to derive UTC from whatever the RTC is set to and to be able to
> >> keep it consistent.
> >>
> >
> > It's dependent on a right boot initial priority of distribution.
>
> -ENOPARSE
>
> > Here have a discussion of adjusting system clock by TZ (from ACPI or
> > UEFI):
> > Discussion on BIOS/CMOS/UEFI clock in local time
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg07639.html
> >
> > and,
> > from Ted Ts'o in the mail thread
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/8/195
> >
> > If kernel use the TZ field from ACPI TAD or EFI to adjust system
> > clock when booting, then it can avoid buggy distributions adjust
> > system clock AFTER e2fsck is run.
> >
> > Using ACPI TAD should after DSDT parsing in subsystem initial stage,
> > so I choice EFI time services before we can move DSDT parser to
> > start_kernel().
> >
>
> Yes, of course. That is irrelevant to needing to reprogram the clock,
> though.
>
> My argument is very simple: if we have to rely on EFI, we can get the
> offset in the boot stub before ExitBootServices(), and then simply never
> change it. That way we still pick up if another operating system has
> changed it, and it will still reflect the proper UTC time.
>
> -hpa
>

OK, I will add this part to next version for the UEFI system doesn't
have ACPI TAD.


Thanks for your suggestion!
Joey Lee

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