Re: [PATCH] x86: enable rtc-efi

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:38:51AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Besides a Kconfig change this just requires creating a respective
> platform device.

"During runtime, if a PC-AT CMOS device is present in the platform the 
caller must synchronize access to the device before calling GetTime()."

This shouldn't be enabled on PC hardware without locking to avoid races 
with direct ahrdware access.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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