[Lguest] [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 04/14] x86/rtc: replace paravirt rtc check with platform legacy quirk

David Vrabel david.vrabel at citrix.com
Thu Apr 7 19:42:40 AEST 2016


On 07/04/16 01:06, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> We have 4 types of x86 platforms that disable RTC:
> 
>   * Intel MID
>   * Lguest - uses paravirt
>   * Xen dom-U - uses paravirt
>   * x86 on legacy systems annotated with an ACPI legacy flag
> 
> We can consolidate all of these into a platform specific legacy
> quirk set early in boot through i386_start_kernel() and through
> x86_64_start_reservations(). This deals with the RTC quirks which
> we can rely on through the hardware subarch, the ACPI check can
> be dealt with separately.

Xen parts:

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>

David


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