Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT's clock on ARAnyM

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

2011/4/23 Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:
> Hello.
>
> I have just fixed a bunch of bugs in EmuTOS' clock functions.
>
> And I have discovered that FreeMiNT was affected by EmuTOS clock bugs,
> especially on ARAnyM.
>
> FreeMiNT's clock seems to be initialized from the BIOS, and due to EmuTOS'
> bug, it uses a wrong time (up to 30 seconds in the past). So the time inside
> FreeMiNT is different than the time on the host OS. The files created on
> hostfs pick up the host clock, so from FreeMiNT's point of view they are
> created in the future.
>
> This may explain the "Clock skew detected" sometimes encountered when
> running make.
>
> Everything seems OK with the current EmuTOS from CVS.
>
> --
> Vincent Rivière
>
This is a good fix, I have run into this with chkext2fs at boot
(previous boot was in the future)

Thanks, that is another one down..

Paul