It's not the right fix for the checkpoint deadlock problem
Brad was having, and creates another bug where the system can
deadlock on restore. Brad can't reproduce the original bug
right now, so we'll wait until it arises again and then try
to fix it the right way then.
Added drain functions to the RTC and 8254 timer so that periodic interrupts
stop when the system is draining. This patch is needed to checkpoint in
timing mode. Otherwise under certain situations, the event queue will never
be completely empty.
creation and initialization now happens in python. Parameter objects
are generated and initialized by python. The .ini file is now solely for
debugging purposes and is not used in construction of the objects in any
way.
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pass the tuple of python's struct_time and interpret that.
Fixes a problem where the local timezone leaked into the time
calculation. Also fix things so that the unix, python, and RTC
data sheets all get the right time. Provide both years since 1900
and BCD two digit year.
Put the date back at 1/1/2006 for now.
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formats for time (strings, datetime objects, etc.)
Advance system time to 1/1/2009
Clean up time management code a little bit
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