kernel: How can we now the current time before / mounted ?

[Tertou <TDeval@PrimeOBJ.COM>]

Hello,

In my RAIDFrame development, I need to start the engine thread for 
auto-configured raids before the filesystem has been mounted.
Though initclocks has already been called, the kernel's current time 
isn't available before the root filesystem mount.

As a side effect, my engine threads have an EPOCH start timeval.
1# ps ckux | grep raid
root        11  0.0  0.0     0     0 ??  DKL    1Jan70    0:00.68 raid1
root        12  0.0  0.0     0     0 ??  DKL    1Jan70    0:01.27 raid2
root        10  0.0  0.0     0     0 ??  DKL    1Jan70    0:01.22 raid0

How can I get the current timeval to update the threads ?
Should I wait and update those threads later in the boot process ?

T.