linux-kernel - Re: RFC: do get_rtc

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Message-ID: <46C3A04E.7030205@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:54:38 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	"David P. Reed" <dpreed@...d.com>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: do get_rtc_time() correctly

On 08/16/2007 02:26 AM, David P. Reed wrote:

> My mention of NMI (which by definition can't be masked) is because NMI

Well, not by the CPU it can't, but on a PC, masking NMIs is a simple matter 
of setting bit 7 of I/O port 0x70 to 1 (it seems the kernel does not provide 
an interface for it though?).

Rene.

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