Luca Tettamanti wrote:
Linux operates the HPET timer in legacy replacement mode, which means that the periodic interrupt of the CMOS RTC is not delivered (qemu won't be able to use /dev/rtc). Add support for HPET (/dev/hpet) as a replacement for the RTC; the periodic interrupt is delivered via SIGIO and is handled in the same way as the RTC timer. HPET must be explicitly enabled with -use-hpet.
Are there any downsides to using HPET? If not, I suggest making it the default, in order to reduce complexity for the user.
Something like: - try to use HPET (unless -no-rtc selected) - try to use RTC (unless -no-rtc selected) - fallback to normal unix facilities -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
