> On the other hand, introducing several layers of time services and > drivers may seem unnecessarily complicated. In my view, the driver would > be device specific, but it would talk a generic time protocol, pretty > much in the same way as block device drivers are device specific, but > they speak the unifying block device protocol.
OTOH, a generic time server could keep satisfying the clients "time()" requests even if a driver for a specific platform is not available at all. In this case, it will simply answer with the "uptime" only. -- -------------------- Maurizio Lombardi _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
