This patch makes seabios use the acpi pmtimer instead of tsc for
timekeeping. The pmtimer has a fixed frequency and doesn't need
calibration, thus it doesn't suffer from calibration errors due to a
loaded host machine.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com
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src/clock.c | 29
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:04:10PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
This patch makes seabios use the acpi pmtimer instead of tsc for
timekeeping. The pmtimer has a fixed frequency and doesn't need
calibration, thus it doesn't suffer from calibration errors due to a
loaded host machine.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:04:10PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
This patch makes seabios use the acpi pmtimer instead of tsc for
timekeeping. The pmtimer has a fixed frequency and doesn't need
calibration, thus it doesn't suffer from calibration errors due to a
loaded host machine.
It looks