Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:28:29 +1100 From: "George Codsi" <gcodsi@tattersalls.com.au> To: <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Clarification of access to RTC on PC based FreeBSD Message-ID: <000901be5f9d$5d7363a0$2e10c018@y2k-smith.vic.bigpond.net.au>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BE5FF9.90A9DFE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Your Y2K web page states: "Note also that the OS expects to read the current date and time from = the CMOS clock of your computer. Not all of these devices correctly = handle the year 2000. You are advised to test each platform individually to ensure that your = hardware clock behaves correctly when going from 1999 to 2000, and that = it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap year." I presume that this means that the Real Time Clock is directly accessed = by FreeBSD, rather than via the BIOS. Many new PCs (even now) are BIOS = compliant but not RTC compliant. It means we have to be extra careful = about which PCs we run FreeBSD on. Can you confirm please ? Thanks. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BE5FF9.90A9DFE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Your Y2K web page states:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>"Note also that the OS expects to read the = current date=20 and time from the CMOS clock of your computer. Not all of these devices=20 correctly handle the year 2000.<BR>You are advised to test each platform = individually to ensure that your hardware clock behaves correctly when = going=20 from 1999 to 2000, and that it correctly<BR>interprets the year 2000 as = a leap=20 year."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I presume that this means that the Real Time Clock = is directly=20 accessed by FreeBSD, rather than via the BIOS. Many new PCs (even now) = are BIOS=20 compliant but not RTC compliant. It means we have to be extra careful = about=20 which PCs we run FreeBSD on.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Can you confirm please ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BE5FF9.90A9DFE0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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