linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86

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Message-ID: <m1abvj1pmq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:44:13 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@...ux.intel.com> writes:
>  
> diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/Documentation/dontdiff
> linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig
> linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-uefi-finaltest/drivers/char/Kconfig
> --- linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-orig/drivers/char/Kconfig 2007-04-19 12:39:39.000000000
> -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.21rc7-git2-uefi-finaltest/drivers/char/Kconfig 2007-04-19
> 13:01:02.000000000 -0700
> @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ config GEN_RTC_X
>  
>  config EFI_RTC
>  	bool "EFI Real Time Clock Services"
> -	depends on IA64
> +	depends on IA64 || X86_64

Please remove this.

We have an architecturally defined hardware realtime clock
on x86_64.  We don't need EFI to abstract it for us.

My condolences to hardware manufacturers that can't follow a
20 year old standard.

Eric
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