From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 30 17:17:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pallas.veritas.com (pallas.veritas.com [204.177.156.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5F314D5A for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:17:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@veritas.com) Received: from megami.veritas.com (megami.veritas.com [192.203.46.101]) by pallas.veritas.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA07387; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (1246 bytes) by megami.veritas.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:17:14 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #4 built 1999-Aug-24) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:17:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@veritas.com To: GReg meno Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time. In-Reply-To: <20000131011026.12949.qmail@web2006.mail.yahoo.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 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