cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 27 20:46:25 UTC 2007


On Friday 27 July 2007 05:34:43 am David Malone wrote:
> dwmalone    2007-07-27 09:34:43 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/isa         clock.c 
>   Log:
>   It seems that some i386 mothermoards either do not implement the
>   day of week field correctly, or they remember bad values that are
>   written into the day of week field. For this reason, ignore the day
>   of week field when reading the clock on i386 rather than bailing if
>   it is set incorrectly.
>   
>   Problems were seen on a number of platforms, including VMWare, qemu,
>   EPIA ME6000, Epox-3PTA and ABIT-SL30T.
>   
>   This is a slightly different fix to that proposed by Ted in his PR,
>   but the same basic idea.
>   
>   PR:             111117
>   Submitted by:   Ted Faber <faber at lunabase.org>
>   Approved by:    re (rwatson)
>   MFC after:      3 weeks

Can you merge this to amd64 as well?

-- 
John Baldwin


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