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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: No RTC kernel support needed?
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:40:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <glvl2i$pua$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901291843y461f506cj9d7dd90a9138578b@mail.gmail.com>

Grant wrote:
> One of my systems needed Real Time Clock -> PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in
> the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make
> the 'hwclock' command work.  Another of my systems doesn't have Real
> Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works
> fine.  Does anyone know how that works?

It might have something to do with the "High Resolution Timer Support" 
option (in "Processor type and features".)  Not sure though.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30  2:43 [gentoo-user] No RTC kernel support needed? Grant
2009-01-30 19:40 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-02-01 16:19   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2009-02-01 20:56     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-02 13:25     ` Robin Atwood
2009-02-02 16:18       ` Grant
2009-02-02 21:13         ` Robin Atwood

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