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From: Marco Trentini <mark@remotelab.org>
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Subject: Re: Another updated RTC driver for vmware users to try
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:36:39AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> Ok, I took a closer look at how the linux rtc driver actually works, and I
> came up with this updated rtc driver.  It should be a better emulation,
> but my laptop is so pokey that I have trouble noticing a difference.  It
> appears that the current rtc is making the vmware client sleep too much,
> so this might improve responsiveness a bit.
> 

Great work!

> Anyway, give it a shot and tell me how it works.  I believe that this is
> the last performance-related change to the driver, next up will be device
> cloning.
> 
> To build this, just throw rtc.c in the files/ directory of the rtc port
> and rebuild it.


What value should have the kernel HZ option?
About 1000? Is 1300 proper?