On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Riccardo wrote:
I don't know "how", but with 2.2 kernels I always had a correct date at
boot without any tricks. It is true though that with high CPU load we
had clockskew and that we didn't save back the date and hourtime to the
clock, thus any clock setting needed to be done from the mac side. A
compromoise, but better than the current situation.
The clockproblem is something I stumble upon every now and then on
various machinees - I really wish there was a kernel parameter where one
could set a date string, then the bootloader could pass it on.
Currently i use a /.timestamp file that I read from init=/sbin/init.noclock;
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firda ~ # cat /sbin/init.noclock
#! /bin/bash
if test $(/bin/date +%Y) -lt 2008 ; then
/bin/date -s "1970-01-01 + $(($(/bin/stat -c %X /.timestamp) +3600)) seconds"
fi
exec /sbin/init
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I make sure the .timestamp is touched regularly and on shutdown.
This trick I now use on quadra910, an old acer laptop, gumstix ... :P
-- kolla
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