Re: time drift and fb comsole activity

From: Cort Dougan (cort@fsmlabs.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 19:04:12 EST


} > } The fbdev console problem is too horrible to pretend to solve by resyncing
} > } on timer interrupts. At least for the x86 the fix is to sort out the fb
} > } locking properly
} >
} > How close is that?
}
} Its not in itself a big problem, but since it doesnt reformat your hard disk,
} explode randomly or drop you off the network its not at the top of my priority
} list right now

I'll stick with the pretend fix that results in accurate time-keeping,
then.

Thanks for the info.
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