Bug#277298: RTC problem on 8208CA

2005-05-04 Thread Horms
reassign 277298 util-linux tags 277298 sarge thanks The implemention of a user-space timeout for buggy RTC chips, suggested by Paul Gortmaker, is in the hwclock supplied by util-linux as of 2.12b-1 (upstream as of 2.12a). This appears to be in unstable but not sarge. Accordingly I am reassigning

Bug#277298: RTC problem on 8208CA

2005-05-04 Thread Horms
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:25:41PM -0700, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > At a glance this sounds like the case of having the HPET enabled causes > the RTC IRQ functionality to become crippled or non-functional. The > concept of hwclock using alarm or similar to handle broken and > misconfigured hardware

Bug#277298: RTC problem on 8208CA

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Gortmaker
At a glance this sounds like the case of having the HPET enabled causes the RTC IRQ functionality to become crippled or non-functional. The concept of hwclock using alarm or similar to handle broken and misconfigured hardware is a sensible idea. Paul. --- Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,