Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 200904280848.14109.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
i too would prefer a POST case that can be classified as a mathematically sound proof. did i miss something, or was such a case proposed ?
No.
And I think it's actually difficult to implement, as it's highly system-dependent. Testing against the RTC was mentioned - there is a plethora of different RTC being usedon different boards, some more and some less suitable for such a test. Some board don't even have a RTC (quite alot of them actually), and other systems have an internal RTC that runs from the same clock as the main CPU so you can measure anything but you cannot measure wallclock times because you don't have an independent reference clock.
Yes, being able to test sucha thing is nice, but I want to make clear that this is not a mandatory prerequisite to get any code accepted.
as it stands, your e-mail simply reads as "i agree with what Jean-Christophe said".
Or more likely "I agree with what Wolfgang said" ;-)
well i'm glad you clarified because i missed the point of your e-mail
I missed it, too. What exactly did I say? :-)
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk