Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Dec 20 2013 - 10:16:13 EST


On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 20:22 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 08:05 PM, joeyli wrote:
> > Can we use EFI time services on x86_64 after Borislav's patches accepted
> > to mainline?
> >
>
> No.

We will want to use them to (at minimum) obtain the clock timezone.
Using them for general RTC access is less attractive.

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