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From: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 277298@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: RTC problem on 8208CA
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:34:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050505023447.GB3988@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050504032541.58650.qmail@web60513.mail.yahoo.com>

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:25:41PM -0700, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> At a glance this sounds like the case of having the HPET enabled causes
> the RTC IRQ functionality to become crippled or non-functional.  The
> concept of hwclock using alarm or similar to handle broken and
> misconfigured hardware is a sensible idea.

Thanks for the advice. I guess I was holding onto an idea
that it could be fixed in the kernel - but you are right,
the user-space work around is a simple solution to this
buggy hardware.

-- 
Horms

      reply	other threads:[~2005-05-05  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-02  5:16 Horms
2005-05-04  3:25 ` Paul Gortmaker
2005-05-05  2:34   ` Horms [this message]

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