Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/time: Don't use EFI's GetTime call by default

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 14.12.15 at 17:53, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:02:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> In reality only Microsoft (and perhaps to a lesser extent Apple) have any
>> sort of ability to force things in this way (even so it is alleged in this
>> thread that even Windows avoids the GetTime call as too broken in the field
>> as well).
> 
> We could confirm this right? We can run OVMF and instrument the 'GetTime' 
> and
> see what Windows does?

I have no doubt MS doesn't use it. I believe though that it's broken
in many case because they don't, not that they don't because it's
broken.

Jan


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