Re: panic: invalid bcd xxx

From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo_at_bluezbox.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 09:44:34 -0800
Adrian Chadd (adrian.chadd_at_gmail.com) wrote:
> On 2 March 2017 at 01:31, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2 March 2017 00:37:35 CET, Michael Gmelin <freebsd_at_grem.de>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 2 Mar 2017, at 00:35, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This is an emulated BIOS though, right?
> >>>
> >>> I don't know if we're going to get the RTC 'bugfixed'...
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> It's SeaBIOS, yes. I feel like this might end up in another
> >> quirk/workaround solution.
> >>
> >
> > I'm one of the C720 owners and  apart of Michael, I only know two users more
> > running FreeBSD. The SeaBIOS in our devices. is outdated, mine from 2013
> > IIRC. I dont know if there is an easy way to update this.
> 
> We're not; we need to cope with crappy BIOS emulations and not crash :)
> 
> What's Linux doing instead? Ignoring the RTC?

I believe I saw the same problem on either my NUC or Minnowboard.
I just hacked around it to work on something else and didn't
have time to get back to the device since then. But it's not
just emulation BIOS. I think the right way to go is to perform sanity
check on RTC data and refuse to use it if it's not valid.

-- 
gonzo
Received on Sat Mar 04 2017 - 16:44:38 UTC

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