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.patchReceived on Sat Jul 16 20:15:05 2005
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