Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use SIGIO with caution

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/31/2011 04:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-05-31 23:11, Andreas Färber wrote:
> > Am 31.05.2011 um 21:49 schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > > At one point in time, it was the only way to get a high res clock.
> > > Now, it Just Works provided you don't have an ancient kernel.
> >
> > I'm curious, what's ancient these days? 2.6.29 or more like 2.4.x?
>
> IIRC, highres timers started to work around 2.6.24 on x86. Anyone on
> such an old kernel is likely also not interested in updating QEMU.

Yeah, 2.6.24 is ancient now that we're in the 3.0 world ;-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan