On Monday 08 September 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
quoted text >
> > All the powerpc folks are doing is providing a dummy shim into the
> > RTC layer using their machine description vector, and not really using
> > the RTC layer drivers at all.
>
> But realistically that's all we need. Our RTC is controlled by two
> calls into firmware: a get and a set; nothing else. We don't have the
> docs to get at the clock without the firmware calls.
True for PARISC ... but not for PowerPC. Lots of PowerPC
system boards use off-the-shelf RTCs with more capabilities
than the machine description vector acknowledges.
- Dave
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Re: [PATCH] fix RTC_CLASS regression with PARISC , David Brownell , (Mon Sep 8, 4:32 pm)