Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 09:14:23 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: efirtc + atrtc at the same time Message-ID: <615114ebc4d37a753f02403981ea23e60a6dbe08.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <021d8df4-a4f8-620d-73b6-b6103d0bf7f1@FreeBSD.org> References: <021d8df4-a4f8-620d-73b6-b6103d0bf7f1@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 11:37 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > I see that on my laptop both efirtc and atrtc get attached. > The latter is via an ACPI attachment: > efirtc0: <EFI Realtime Clock> > efirtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock, resolution 1.000000s > atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 on acpi0 > atrtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock, resolution 1.000000s > > I am not sure if this is a problem by itself, but it certainly seems redundant > to have two drivers controlling the same(?) hardware via different platform > mechanisms. > Maybe there is a nice way to automatically disable (or "neutralize") one of the > drivers? > I thought I had done something long ago to prevent atrtc and efirtc from both attaching, but apparently not. I intended to, I even mentioned it in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14399 but it looks like I never followed up and did the work. > Also, there is another issue related to atrtc. > When I have both drivers attached, and also when I have only atrtc attached > (efi.rt.disabled=1), system clock jumps 10 minutes forward after each suspend / > resume cycle (S0 -> S3 -> S0). That does not happen for reboot and shutdown > cycles. I haven't investigated this deeper, but it is a curious problem. > I've looked at the code for messing with the clock around suspend/resume and never felt like it was doing the right thing (or even anything useful). But I've never owned a freebsd machine that could successfully resume from suspend, so I've never been able to experiment with it. -- Ian
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