On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:09:12PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> > It means you may not take a timer interrupt while you are
> > waiting, which is not exactly what I would call irrelevant.
>=20
> Why does it mean that? The kernel's timer interrupt routine never
> reads the RTC anyway - in fact, apart from setting the system clock
> during the boot-up procedure, nothing in the kernel's boot process
> touches the RTC or CMOS at all.
True for ix86.
Other archs may be different.
--=20
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, N=FCrnberg, FRG
Linux kernel development; SCSI drivers: tmscsim(DC390), DC395
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