NetBSD Problem Report #6564

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 05:48:30 -0800 (PST)
From: gaillard@ina.fr
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: system with year 2000 date, reboot in 1 jan 1997
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>Number:         6564
>Category:       y2k
>Synopsis:       system with year 2000 date, reboot in 1 jan 1997
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 11 05:50:01 +0000 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue Mar 16 17:28:51 +0000 1999
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 16 17:29:31 +0000 1999
>Originator:     Fabrice Gaillard
>Release:        NetBSD1.3.2 on i386
>Organization:
INA
>Environment:
NetBSD pc3 1.3.2 NetBSD 1.3.2 (GENERIC) #0: Sun May 24 19:45:48 EDT 1998     perry@frankenstein.piermont.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

>Description:
set date to something in year 2000 or more (in bios)
boot first time : date is ok
reboot : date fall back to 1 jan 1997

it's a new machine with a ASUS P5A mainboard and a k6 processor
bios is "said" to be y2k certified

>How-To-Repeat:
set the date to anything after 1 jan 2000
boot
halt
boot again

Need to be tested with other type of mainboard/bios

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Fabrice GAILLARD <gaillard@ina.fr>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: y2k/6564: system with year 2000 date, reboot in 1 jan 1997
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 99 12:07:22 +0100

 >Thank you very much for your problem report.
 >It has the internal identification `y2k/6564'.
 >The individual assigned to look at your
 >bug is: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator).

 Problem seems to be solved with the NetBSD 1.3.3 release

 Best regards

 --Fabrice Gaillard
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->port-i386-maintainer 
Responsible-Changed-By: fair 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jan 14 08:45:19 PST 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
This appears to be an i386 specific problem from the description. 
We have less than a year to fix this... 

From: drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de
To: gaillard@ina.fr
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: Re: y2k/6564: system with year 2000 date, reboot in 1 jan 1997
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:27:39 +0100

 > set date to something in year 2000 or more (in bios)
 > boot first time : date is ok
 > reboot : date fall back to 1 jan 1997

 Another BIOS which tries to be intelligent...
 If you say theat it's solved with 1.3.3 it was probably a century
 byte issue - this was the only relevant change I'm aware of.
 It's not complete clear what happened here - 1.3.2 didn't care
 about the century byte, so if the BIOS accepted to set the time
 to >=2000, it should either set this byte itself, or at least not
 complain if noone else does it. But this is logics, and BIOSes
 are not good in this...
 If you are able to verify that it works with NetBSD-current, it
 would be nice if you did. The current code should still do the same
 with "normal" machines, but the more testing the better.
 (There were problems with PS/2 alikes which have a different
 BIOS data layout, so the code had to be changed.)

 best regards
 Matthias


State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: drochner 
State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 16 09:28:51 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed 
>Unformatted:

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