On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > On Mon 31 Jul 2000, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > > > Much more probable is that one of kernels in question was compiled > > > with an RTC support and the other without .... > > > > No, that's not the problem here. If it was, he wouldn't have made the > > statement "... time seemed to jump around randomly...". > > This "... time seemed to jump around randomly..." is exactly what I have > seen, for example, on UP1000 with a kernel compiled without RTC support. > If you will read with hwclock in a loop some of returned values will > be correct and some will jump around. How often one or another seems > to depend on a phase of a moon.
The 1000 needs the -F option passed to the clock program, for "Funky" clock (like the LX). take a look at this, it's been known for a while: http://bugs.alpha-processor.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7 --rdp -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
