From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:02:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:02:18 -0500 Received: from p3EE3CA16.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.227.202.22]:8455 "HELO emma1.emma.line.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:02:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:02:04 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3) Message-ID: <20010103230204.C15394@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <20010102173233.C1846@emma1.emma.line.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 17:31:29 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > The TSC one is fairly sane, the CMOS gets messy because host and CMOS time > are not always the same The idea is to read out the CMOS clock before and after polling the BIOS, hoping that the BIOS would not tamper with the CMOS time. However, thinking more elaborately, I think, CMOS is limited to 1 s, so the granularity will make the whole thing pretty vain. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/