Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 04/14] x86/rtc: replace paravirt rtc check with platform legacy quirk

From: David Vrabel
Date: Thu Apr 07 2016 - 05:42:48 EST


On 07/04/16 01:06, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> We have 4 types of x86 platforms that disable RTC:
>
> * Intel MID
> * Lguest - uses paravirt
> * Xen dom-U - uses paravirt
> * x86 on legacy systems annotated with an ACPI legacy flag
>
> We can consolidate all of these into a platform specific legacy
> quirk set early in boot through i386_start_kernel() and through
> x86_64_start_reservations(). This deals with the RTC quirks which
> we can rely on through the hardware subarch, the ACPI check can
> be dealt with separately.

Xen parts:

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

David