katz@MERIT.EDU (Dave Katz) (10/04/90)
With the help of friends at IBM Research, a kernel bug in AIX for the RS/6000 has been tracked down and a fix has been written and submitted to the gang at Austin. I should be receiving a kernel to test out soon. Once I give it a shot and discover that it works (crossing his fingers), I'll report the magic APAR number and you can all call your IBM reps and tell them that it's a severity one, life and death problem and hopefully a new kernel release will come along in less than a lifetime to make things work.
katz@MERIT.EDU (Dave Katz) (11/05/90)
There is now a fix available for the kernel time routines in RS/6000 AIX-- request APAR A12990. A version of xntp is available via anonymous ftp from merit.edu (35.1.1.42) on pub/xntp/xntp.rs6000.tar.Z. Perhaps Dennis will retrofit the occasional mods into his distribution version... Seems to work OK. I'll let the hardcore types pass judgement on its accuracy. The fact that the clock can only be slewed in 1 msec chunks does limit things a bit, but for most of us it should do the job just fine. A slightly incredulous thanks to folks in Yorktown and Austin for making the fix.