Hello, On 11/09/2024 03:58:49+0400, Pavel Nikulin wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that EFI RTC was disabled on X86 really long time ago due to > Intel reference firmwares coming with broken EFI. > > I edited the Kconfig to enable it, and see how it works on my laptop > (AMD HX370). I can confirm that it boots well. I have not done any > more extensive tests than that. > > What do you think about re-enabling EFI RTC behind some expert config > flag, and ask more people to test it on modern X86 hardware? I don't mind do that, I believe the issue is that this is going to break the users that have a broken EFI and rely on CMOS. Please copy the x86 maintainers on your patch. Regards, -- Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
