On 12/10/2013 03:24 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> >> TAD would also give us the timezone. I'm not sure how you can >> realistically only use the time function during boot, however, unless >> you inherently assume it is coherent with the hardware RTC, since you >> wouldn't be able to set it. > > If we can verify that Windows actually uses TAD then I'd agree it's > preferable to EFI, but if we can't then I wouldn't be so sure. I'll redo > my Windows instrumentation and figure out under which circumstances it's > calling the time functions. > Well, *which version* of Windows is a big question here. Keep in mind that the TAD was only introduced with ACPI 5 so it is quite a new feature. I would really like to see it implemented in SeaBIOS and/or OVMF so we can test it out in Qemu. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
