Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:00:34 +0100 | From | lkml@cl ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HPET RTC emulation: add watchdog timer |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > 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)
Not in the current implementation.
> and check for that directly.
I want to avoid the read altogether because the round trip to the south bridge is rather slow (1.5 microseconds with VIA chipsets).
Clemens
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