>>> 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
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