>>> On 09.03.14 at 19:50, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Mar, at 04:31:41PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:20:20PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: >> >> > We have tried to use the time functions before, with little success >> > because of various bugs in the runtime implementations, e.g. see commit >> > bacef661acdb ("x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock") >> > and commit bd52276fa1d4 ("x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall >> > clock (again)"). >> >> I'd naively expected that these would be more reliable after the 1:1 >> mapping patches, so it might actually be time to give them another go. > > Is there any value in that? Do machines exist where we absolutely must > have access to the EFI time services? Either because there's no other > method or no other working one? Is it such a bad thing to be prepared for this sort of machine to arrive even if likely there are none so far? Jan -- 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