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On Thursday 22 February 2007 2:58 pm, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> 
> I think, we only want 1, right? And the latter seems to be more generic / 
> platform independent? And as a side-effect, powermac would have to migrate 
> to generic rtc:-)

I'd certainly think that restoring the system clock should be, as much
as possible, in platform-agnostic code.  Like the generic RTC framework.

And hmm, that powermac/time.c file replicates other RTC code...

Minor obstacle:  removing the EXPERIMENTAL label from that code.

- Dave