[RFC v2] ARM VM System Specification

Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Tue Jul 1 10:03:46 PDT 2014


On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 30 June 2014 21:46, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> > Seems like we should stick a note in there about being UEFI compatible
> > requires an RTC.  We went this far before Peter raised the issue with
> > noone else realizing it, so it seems like a good idea to me.
> 
> How about:
> =====
> Guest OSes in the VM image should rely on the UEFI RTC API for
> real time clock services. (To provide that API, the VM system will
> likely need to implement some real time clock device, but the
> details of these are a private implementation issue between it
> and its associated UEFI implementation.)

I don't see why we need to add the text within brackets: it is out of
scope for this document.



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