Re: [PATCH] x86-64: use EFI to deal with platform wall clock

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 16.05.12 at 14:39, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:18:28PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> So I'm afraid if the patch as I provided it isn't acceptable, and
>> if the call to efi_enter_virtual_mode() can't be moved ahead
>> of the one to timekeeping_init(), this winds down to the whole
>> logic needing a re-write.
> 
> I have zero objection to this being cleaned up, but I don't know of any 
> obvious reason why we can't do enter_virtual_mode() earlier.

So this indeed works (moving enter_virual_mode() invocation
to the end of mm_init(), which seems to most logical place to
me) on the single system I can try this out on. I'll submit an
updated patch soon.

Jan

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