[Lguest] RTC for lguest

[Grant Grundler]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:59:48AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thursday 07 February 2008 05:40:04 Grant Grundler wrote:
> > Rusty,
> > Thanks again for the lguest tutorial at lca2008.
> >
> > Patch below adds a RTC driver that provides minimal functionality
> > for lguest. I've only tested 2.6.23 under Qemu if that matters.
> > In general, I think the rtc-lguest has to treat the host as a
> > read-only HW clock and any additional features being added
> > need to keep that in mind.
> 
> That's fine, I think that I'll keep this in the queue and not push it yet.  
> It's quite a bit of code to prevent a single annoying line in the logs.

*LOL* - that's ok. It was fun working on it - something totally different.

I think rtc-lguest would make more sense if you wanted to implement HPET
or something fancier for lguest timers. And sitting on it for "a while"
should be ok since I don't expect the RTC framework to change.

cheers,
grant

> 
> Thanks!
> Rusty.