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SubjectRe: [PATCH] HPET RTC emulation: add watchdog timer
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:43:50PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> To prevent the emulated RTC timer from stopping when interrupts are
> disabled for too long, implement the watchdog timer to restart it when
> needed.

The interrupt handler should just read the time (it likely
has to do that anyways) and check for that
directly. That is what I did in my noidletick HPET patch and it
worked ok.

-Andi
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