Hi,
> > I expect dropping the rtc is easier with acpi too, the kernel probably
> > wouldn't try to find it then. Right now seabios needs rtc cmos for
> > ram size probing, so I didn't test that yet.
Confirmed. With rtc=off I get this ...
CPU0
1: 0 IO-APIC 9-edge ACPI:Ged
2: 62 IO-APIC 23-fasteoi virtio0
3: 5664 IO-APIC 22-fasteoi virtio1
4: 1854 IO-APIC 4-edge ttyS0
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
[ ... ]
... i.e. rtc irq is gone.
> Let's leave flipping the default as a separate patch, to be
> decided on merits after a bunch of people test with/without.
Sure.
take care,
Gerd
