On 10 June 2014 18:04, Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/10/2014 10:42 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I just noticed that this doesn't mandate that the platform >> provides an RTC. As I understand it, the UEFI spec mandates >> that there's an RTC (could somebody more familiar with UEFI >> than me confirm/deny that?) so we should probably put one here. > > Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly disqualifies Generic Timer > implementations from being used as Real Time Clocks? So my naive view was that an RTC actually had to have support for dealing with real (wall) clock time, ie knowing it's 2014 and not 1970. The generic timers are just timers. Or am I wrong and UEFI doesn't really require that? It's also handy if you're booting Linux directly without UEFI, since it means you can actually have a /dev/rtc0 (and QEMU's implementation at least will correctly give you the time based on the host's RTC). thanks -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
