16 Jul
2005
16 Jul
'05
10:54 a.m.
Plus not all machines have a physical RTC chip.
If you want periodic interrupt emulation on those you need a patch [1],
but that just generates a software interrupt. That would suffer from a
change in HZ value AFAIK.
--
Martin
[1] http://www.mph.eclipse.co.uk/pub/linux/patches/2.6.8/genrtc.c.patch