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Message-ID: <47B2F56D.1070004@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:49:33 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/5] Only do century BCD conversion when we know the
RTC is BCD
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>>> So the warning comes a bit late :)
>> I suspect if this was wrong before it would not have been noticed
>> because user space hwclock would work around it.
>
> And how exaclty does it work aroalund ? By setting the binary cmos clock
> with BCD values ?
By reading the value directly from CMOS I suppose and checking
the BCD bit and then setting the clock to the correct value [all
theoretical; i have not checked the hwclock code if
it does that or not. It might be wrong. Just a hypothesis.]
-Andi
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