Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:04:59 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.19 143/639] rtc: cmos: ignore bogus century byte |
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Hi!
> From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> > > [ Upstream commit 2a4daadd4d3e507138f8937926e6a4df49c6bfdc ] > > Older versions of Libreboot and Coreboot had an invalid value > (`3' in my case) in the century byte affecting the GM45 in > the Thinkpad X200. Not everybody's updated their firmwares, > and Linux <= 4.2 was able to read the RTC without problems, > so workaround this by ignoring invalid values.
Should it print a warning so that wrong BIOSes are eventually fixed?
Best regards, Pavel
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