From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:29:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a049daea-a713-4d06-b35f-61f3bec06ba9@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387558713.17961.4.camel@x230>
Yes, but the TZ isn't all that critical, either. It certainly doesn't matter at all for a pure Linux system.
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:57 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> But we prefer the TAD for that. The case where the EFI runtime is
>the only source of that info is problematic as they are known to not
>work at runtime. We could collect it at boot and then never change it,
>although you end up in definitional issues between EFI and the hw RTC.
>
>Most shipping UEFI hardware has no TAD.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-20 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 7:43 Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-12-19 7:44 ` [PATCH 01/14] rtc-efi: fix decrease day twice when computing year days Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-12-19 7:44 ` [PATCH 03/14] rtc: block registration of rtc-cmos when CMOS RTC Not Present Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-12-19 14:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 3:54 ` joeyli
2013-12-20 4:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-19 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-19 16:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2013-12-20 4:05 ` joeyli
2013-12-20 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 5:38 ` joeyli
2013-12-20 21:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-20 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:50 ` Matt Fleming
2013-12-20 22:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-21 12:21 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-12 0:30 ` [RFT][PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode() (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME) Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-12 9:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 2:04 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-14 16:25 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-12 11:05 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-17 12:20 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-14 4:09 ` joeyli
2014-01-14 16:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-14 18:00 ` [RFT][PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode() H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 20:32 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-15 7:18 ` joeyli
2013-12-21 2:43 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME joeyli
2013-12-20 10:53 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-12-20 22:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 15:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 16:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 16:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-12-20 20:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-19 7:51 Lee, Chun-Yi
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