Hi Thomas, As you know, the Armada 38x/8k RTC needs a reset sequence to be operational when first powered up. This reset code is currently in the vendor provided U-Boot RTC driver. But having to run 'date reset' from the U-Boot prompt every first boot (happens quite a lot when dealing with SOMs) is not nice. An automatic reset in the kernel driver would be much better. Rabeeh has mentioned to me that you had an idea how to detect at run time that the RTC is in first power up state. Do you recall the details? Thanks, baruch -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch@xxxxxxxxxx - tel: +972.52.368.4656, http://www.tkos.co.il -