On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Finn Thain wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Riccardo wrote: > > > > > I don't know "how", but with 2.2 kernels I always had a correct date > > > at boot without any tricks. It is true though that with high CPU load > > > we had clockskew and that we didn't save back the date and hourtime to > > > the clock, thus any clock setting needed to be done from the mac side. > > > A compromoise, but better than the current situation. > > > > The clockproblem is something I stumble upon every now and then on > > various machinees - I really wish there was a kernel parameter where one > > could set a date string, then the bootloader could pass it on. > > It isn't a problem if you disable the time-stamp triggered fsck and set > the clock from the network (rdate or ntp).
This is the answer I keep getting, but it isnt really helping. * SSL/TLS and certificate validation. For example my gumtix uses 802.1X to get online, when it is running in "1970-01-01", the server and client certificates are ofcourse not valid and the authentication _will_ fail, and it wont go online, and therefor no ntp. As .1x is becoming more common even on the wire, this problem will grow, at least for me - and .1X is not the only "get online"-method that relies on certificate validation. * Logs, erronous datestamps all over the place, and files made in 1970 or whatever (my acer laptop always starts in 1988-01-01) There are so many kernel parameters for the strangest things, all I ask for is one with a timestamp - then I could tell my gumstick to always boot on a given time where the .1x certificates would be valid instead of 1970-01-01. And on my laptop, I could just change a value in grub before booting. On the mac, penguin could just take system time from macos and pass it on, maybe even emile could do it. -- kolla -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
