On 13 January 2016 at 10:48, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 01/13/16 11:20, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> I am not buying it either, to be honest. In fact, I think it is >> another reason why we should mandate UEFI when using ACPI (which is >> already the case in practice). Then, we can simply omit the RTC ACPI >> node entirely. > > Good point.
Yes, a patch that simply removed the RTC device from the ACPI table altogether would I think be better. That then continues with the current approach that the tables provided by QEMU are intended for use only with a UEFI bios in the picture. thanks -- PMM