From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 29 12:28:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21041 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21010 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:28:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00425; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:27:12 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:27:12 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Dima Ruban cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd In-Reply-To: <199809291917.MAA29159@burka.rdy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Dima Ruban wrote: > Doug Rabson writes: > > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Dima Ruban wrote: > > > > > Hey guys, did anybody got $Subject working on alpha? It looks like > > > it has some problems (u_long size problem, I think). > > > > I haven't tried yet. If you want to work on some time related stuff, > > could you think about fixing adjkerntz too :-). > > Ugh ... While fixing xntpd stuff is pretty much trivial (or at least it looks > like it) I don't know about adjkerntz. I haven't looked at it yet, but > as far as I understand it has some kernel support (read: relies on some > i386 hardware/bios). Of course I'm not sure about it, but if this is correct - > then I will definitely have a hard time porting this stuff to alpha, since > I don't know that much about alpha's hardware ... Since (with SRM anyway) all machines will run with the RTC on UTC, not wall clock time, maybe adjkerntz can be stubbed? It still needs to exist as the standard cron scripts keep trying to run it :-(. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message