Don't mention pre 2.2 Linux kernels in documentation

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Miroslav Lichvar
2013-08-02 15:36:46 +02:00
parent 0da5cf9163
commit 9ac8f64d89
2 changed files with 5 additions and 16 deletions

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@@ -125,9 +125,7 @@ different quirks in its behaviour.
The software is known to work in the following environments:
@itemize @bullet
@item Linux on i386, x86_64 and PowerPC architectures. The software is known
to work on Linux 2.0.x and newer. Prior to 2.0.31, the real time clock can't
be used.
@item Linux 2.2 and newer
@item NetBSD
@item BSD/386
@@ -826,18 +824,10 @@ compiled into the kernel). An estimate is made of the RTC error at a
particular RTC second, and the rate at which the RTC gains or loses time
relative to true time.
The RTC is fully supported in 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
On 2.6 kernels, if your motherboard has a HPET, you need to enable the
On 2.6 and later kernels, if your motherboard has a HPET, you need to enable the
@samp{HPET_EMULATE_RTC} option in your kernel configuration. Otherwise, chrony
will not be able to interact with the RTC device and will give up using it.
For kernels in the 2.0 series prior to 2.0.32, the kernel was set up to
trim the RTC every 11 minutes. This would be disasterous for
@code{chronyd} -- there is no reliable way of synchronising with this
trimming. For this reason, @code{chronyd} only supports the RTC in 2.0
kernels from v2.0.32 onwards.
When the computer is powered down, the measurement histories for all the
NTP servers are saved to files (if the @code{dumponexit} directive is
specified in the configuration file), and the RTC tracking information
@@ -2637,8 +2627,7 @@ conditions apply:
@enumerate 1
@item
You are running Linux version 2.2.x or 2.4.x (for any value of x), or v2.0.x
with x>=32.
You are running Linux version 2.2.x or later.
@item
You have compiled the kernel with extended real-time clock support