Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:02:02 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: /dev/nvram cleanups. |
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On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:09:12PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: > > It means you may not take a timer interrupt while you are > > waiting, which is not exactly what I would call irrelevant. > > Why does it mean that? The kernel's timer interrupt routine never > reads the RTC anyway - in fact, apart from setting the system clock > during the boot-up procedure, nothing in the kernel's boot process > touches the RTC or CMOS at all.
True for ix86. Other archs may be different.
-- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG Linux kernel development; SCSI drivers: tmscsim(DC390), DC395 [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |