On Monday 08 September 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
