Again, we could hack a simulator and try it. Matthew Garrett <matthew.garr...@nebula.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 16:42 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 12/28/2012 03:39 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:32 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> No, that is explicitly the ordering that is excludable. >> > >> > Windows uses the UEFI time functions. The fact that they fail for >us on >> > a bunch of systems is just another symptom of our general failure >to >> > accurately mimic Windows when making runtime calls, and we should >just >> > make sure that that gets fixed rather than layering more >workarounds on >> > top. It's an embarrassment that we're still unable to deal with >> > platforms that work fine with another OS. >> > >> >> Are they using them in preference to ACPI? This seems a bit odd, >since >> one can presume that the ACPI functions were added at Microsoft's >request... > >In preference to the ACPI RTC, I haven't yet had an ACPI 5.0 TAD device >to test in comparison. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- 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/
