Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/time: Don't use EFI's GetTime call by default

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 15.12.15 at 15:50, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:19:45AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 08.12.15 at 12:02, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 02:33 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> Then we should see about adding support for "efi=no-time".
>> > 
>> > And based on what I'm reading in this thread about the reliability of the
>> > time RS in the field it seems to me we should make it the default (on x86
>> > at least) and provide efi=time to opt in.
>> 
>> Which would get us to actively violate at least early versions of the
>> spec (the current one doesn't appear to be as strict anymore). I'm
>> fine making it easy to work around the issue, but I'm against us doing
>> the wrong thing by default.
> 
> Are you OK with DMI quirks?

Sure, why not?

Jan


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