From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VMI Interface Proposal Documentation for I386, Part 4
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:40:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142534450.13318.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4419845E.8060904@vmware.com>
On Iau, 2006-03-16 at 07:29 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> quite easy. I would argue that the various CMOS timer update utilities
> in userspace that do this same thing, really should be moved into the
> kernel as fast as possible - they could race against other CPUs in
They were, something like 8-10 years ago. If your distributor is
shipping code that is doing cli in user space please assist in their
re-education. Several ship code which can fall back if the nvram or rtc
driver is missing but thats compat code.
> Good to know. I thought some piece of xinit still used it to do
> dot-clock probing - but I could be wrong.
It does, but it doesn't disable interrupts. You don't need to.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-16 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-13 19:55 Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 23:37 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-16 7:00 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-16 15:18 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-16 15:29 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-16 18:40 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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