Hello, You can't do that, this breaks an important use case and it is the reason why I didn't use device tree in the beginning. What is wrong with setting BSM from userspace? You will anyway have to set the time and date from userspace for it to be saved. On 01/02/2023 15:34:22+0100, Frieder Schrempf wrote: > From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Some RTC devices like the RV3028 have BSM disabled as factory default. > This makes the RTC quite useless if it is expected to preserve the > time on hardware that has a battery-buffered supply for the RTC. > > Let boards that have a buffered supply for the RTC force the BSM to the > desired value via devicetree by setting the 'backup-switch-mode' property. > > That way the RTC on the boards work as one would expect them to do without > any per-board intervention through userspace tools to enable BSM. > > Frieder Schrempf (7): > dt-bindings: rtc: Move RV3028 to separate binding file > dt-bindings: rtc: Add backup-switch-mode property > dt-bindings: rtc: microcrystal,rv3032: Add backup-switch-mode property > rtc: Move BSM defines to separate header for DT usage > rtc: class: Support setting backup switch mode from devicetree > arm64: dts: imx8mm-kontron: Remove useless trickle-diode-disable from > RTC node > arm64: dts: imx8mm-kontron: Enable backup switch mode for RTC on OSM-S > module > > .../bindings/rtc/microcrystal,rv3028.yaml | 60 +++++++++++++++++++ > .../devicetree/bindings/rtc/rtc.yaml | 7 +++ > .../devicetree/bindings/rtc/trivial-rtc.yaml | 2 - > .../dts/freescale/imx8mm-kontron-osm-s.dtsi | 3 +- > drivers/rtc/class.c | 14 +++++ > include/dt-bindings/rtc/rtc.h | 11 ++++ > include/uapi/linux/rtc.h | 6 +- > 7 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/microcrystal,rv3028.yaml > create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/rtc/rtc.h > > -- > 2.39.1 -- Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
