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Date:      Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:04:36 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c
Message-ID:  <200707270804.36924.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707270934.l6R9YhfQ072079@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200707270934.l6R9YhfQ072079@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Friday 27 July 2007 05:34:43 am David Malone wrote:
> dwmalone    2007-07-27 09:34:43 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/isa         clock.c 
>   Log:
>   It seems that some i386 mothermoards either do not implement the
>   day of week field correctly, or they remember bad values that are
>   written into the day of week field. For this reason, ignore the day
>   of week field when reading the clock on i386 rather than bailing if
>   it is set incorrectly.
>   
>   Problems were seen on a number of platforms, including VMWare, qemu,
>   EPIA ME6000, Epox-3PTA and ABIT-SL30T.
>   
>   This is a slightly different fix to that proposed by Ted in his PR,
>   but the same basic idea.
>   
>   PR:             111117
>   Submitted by:   Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org>
>   Approved by:    re (rwatson)
>   MFC after:      3 weeks

Can you merge this to amd64 as well?

-- 
John Baldwin



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