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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH] Support epoch of 1980 in RTC emulation
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Aurelien Jarno |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH] Support epoch of 1980 in RTC emulation for MIPS Magnum |
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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:06:27 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:51:41PM +0000, Stuart Brady wrote:
> On the MIPS Magnum, the time that is held in the RTC's NVRAM should be
> relative to midnight on 1980-01-01. This patch adds an extra parameter
> to rtc_init(), allowing different epochs to be used. For the Magnum,
> 1980 is specified, and for all other machines, 2000 is specified.
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> I've not modified the handling of the century byte, as with an epoch of
> 1980 and a year of 2009, one could argue that it should hold either
> 0, 1, 19 or 20. NT 3.50 on MIPS does not read the century byte.
Thanks, applied.
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