Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:17:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@veritas.com> To: GReg meno <kbagel@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time. Message-ID: <Pine.SO4.4.05.10001301713410.3414-100000@megami.veritas.com> In-Reply-To: <20000131011026.12949.qmail@web2006.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, GReg meno wrote: > i'm running FreeBSD 4.0-19991225-CURRENT > on an LX164 Well, the fixes to sys/dev/dec/mcclock.c are didn't go in until the 4th: ---------------------------- revision 1.5 date: 2000/01/04 03:22:04; author: mjacob; state: Exp; lines: +15 -2 Ho, ho, ho... this clock chip is not y2k compliant. Motorola has it blacklisted. Silly us for not planning ahead. Tsk. Anyway- a 10 year window patch is probably sufficient to still detect nonsense in the clock but allow us to roll past the year 2000. (and yes, I've had people complain to me about the 10 year window- it's the right thing to do, but only in this case). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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