On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Thus follow the original idea to execute acpi_early_init() before > efi_enter_virtual_mode() to help the EFI people for now and we can > revisit the other problem that commit 73f7d1ca3263 attempted to > address in the future (if really necessary).
It's not necessary at all. In fact we really want to get rid of the arch specific cmos stuff which is an historical leftover. I talked to John Stultz earlier today and he agrees that there are only a few trivial things to add to the RTC subsystem to make this work. >From the timekeeping POV there is absolutely no need to set the wall clock time early. The kernel boot phase does not care about wall time at all. We should have it done before we hit userspace, but not even that is a hard requirement. That TAD/EFI time mess is not going to happen before that is solved. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/