From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 26 16:20:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11CE14F5D; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCE31CA0; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 08:20:41 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: Andreas Klemm , Mike Smith , vns@delta.odessa.ua, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't get vmware to run ( on -current ) In-Reply-To: Message from "Vladimir N. Silyaev" of "Sun, 26 Dec 1999 10:10:22 EST." <19991226101022.A378@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 08:20:41 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991227002041.BFCE31CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Vladimir N. Silyaev" wrote: > > I created a new configuration and the only problem seems > > to be the following error messages: > > a) about missing /dev/rtc and > Exactly, /dev/rtc doesn't supported. .. and I'm not entirely sure that we can support it easily. Linux appears to allow user processes to program the RTC to run at an arbitary frequency and /dev/rtc is used to count the number of "ticks" since the last time it was read. The problem is that we use the RTC for other things and at specific frequencies (128hz or 1024hz), so I don't think we can easily emulate /dev/rtc with great precision. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message