Pete Popov wrote: > > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 05:29, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > > > Unless you use a non-MC146818 RTC, which you need to write a separate > > > > driver for anyway. > > > > > > Yep, so that's why both m68k and PPC have common routines to read/write the > > > RTC, with a /dev/rtc-compatible abstraction on top of it. > > > > OK, then you need an RTC chipset-specific driver and not a CPU > > architecture-specific one. Otherwise we'll end with a zillion of similar > > RTC drivers like we already have for LANCE and SCC chips. > > I agree. We don't have arch specific network drivers so why have arch > specific rtc drivers. > Because we can have a free RTC driver working once you get kernel working. Jun
