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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [1/5] Only do century BCD conversion when we know the RTC is BCD
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>>> So the warning comes a bit late :)
>> I suspect if this was wrong before it would not have been noticed
>> because user space hwclock would work around it.
>
> And how exaclty does it work aroalund ? By setting the binary cmos clock
> with BCD values ?

By reading the value directly from CMOS I suppose and checking
the BCD bit and then setting the clock to the correct value [all
theoretical; i have not checked the hwclock code if
it does that or not. It might be wrong. Just a hypothesis.]

-Andi



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