Re: Alpha works, gettimeofday still not quite right

John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)
28 Feb 1999 10:10:05 -0600


dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes:

> > You ought to compile as LX164 for that machine, I believe.
> > Also, you pretty well need /dev/rtc on Alpha.
>
> Why do you say so?
> What is wrong with using CMOS?

> [The hwclock from util-linux-2.9l will work with CMOS on a LX164,
> I think. Please tell me if this hwclock fails on some hardware.]

It fails on my LX164 unless I compile RTC into the kernel.

>
> Andries - aeb@cwi.nl

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