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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is rtc0???? Date: 21 Jul 1995 10:40:37 +0200 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3unp65$o3i@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <DC0DHr.BMn@agora.rdrop.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Craig Keenan <sundans@agora.rdrop.com> wrote: >Question: What is this new device spewing out interrupts on IRQ 8?? The CMOS clock. (Is it ``real-time''? Depends...) >in 2.0.5R, I see it with vmstat -i, I would assume real time clock, but >could someone please explain the hardware details? Which details? It's yet another clock. Get a good book on PC hard- ware for an explanation (standard reference: Frank van Gilluwe). >Is the kernel handling this defferently than before?? Depends on how you define `before'. I think, different from 1.1.5, but not so different from 2.0. -- cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)