[ntp:questions] Reference clock driver for /dev/rtc

unruh unruh at wormhole.physics.ubc.ca
Tue Jun 15 00:22:38 UTC 2010


On 2010-06-14, Krejci, Pavel <pavel.krejci at siemens-enterprise.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have written the reference clock driver for /dev/rtc on Linux. We use it to synchronize the guest Linux system running in the qemu with the Host clock. If this is useful to someone else I would like to contribute to the NTP project. How should I proceed?
>

Why would you want to do that? The rtc is almost certainly worse than
the system clock. Why not have the guest just read the host's system
clock, rather than the rtc. 





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