Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 10:00:46 EST


On 12/18/2013 11:43 PM, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> This patchset add the timezone support of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME, it
> also add codes for adjusting system time base on the timezone value
> from EFI TIME services when system boot.

EFI time is something we used to support and ripped out, because it
doesn't work well, *at all*.

I am hyper-skeptical to reintroducing them, and *definitely* will veto
reintroducing them on a system which has PNP0B0x devices present.

-hpa

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