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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:26:32 -0600
From:      Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: invalid bcd xxx
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On 03/04/2017 11:44, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> Adrian Chadd (adrian.chadd@gmail.com) wrote:
>> We're not; we need to cope with crappy BIOS emulations and not crash :)
>>
>> What's Linux doing instead? Ignoring the RTC?
>
> I believe I saw the same problem on either my NUC or Minnowboard.
> I just hacked around it to work on something else and didn't
> have time to get back to the device since then. But it's not
> just emulation BIOS. I think the right way to go is to perform sanity
> check on RTC data and refuse to use it if it's not valid.

cem@ posted this patch:

	http://dpaste.com/1K2W05E

If someone can test it, I'll gladly commit it.  The real-time clock will 
likely be wrong, but it won't panic with INVARIANTS.

Eric



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