>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Williamson <alex_williamson@hp.com> writes: Alex> Joel, Does this provide more functionality than the EFI RTC? Alex> Concerns I have w/ it on ia64 is that the rtc driver assumes you Alex> have a legacy rtc at the legacy irq and port address. This Alex> won't work on HP zx1 boxes, the legacy hardware doesn't exist. Alex> In the future, there's a possibility that the port address could Alex> be allocated to non-legacy purposes. Maybe ACPI could tell you Alex> if you have a legacy RTC, it could at least tell you if you Alex> support PC/AT compatible interrupts. Thanks, Yes it does. There's no way to get a regular interrupt into user space from the EFI RTC. I've been using the PMU to generate regular interrupts, and have a locally-modified amlat benchmark that does that. -- Dr Peter Chubb peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.Received on Tue Dec 17 13:57:33 2002
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