On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Jun Sun wrote: > > OK, then you need an RTC chipset-specific driver and not a CPU > > architecture-specific one. > > You *can* write a chip specific driver in addition to this generic one if you > want. Presumably the chip-specific one provides more operations than just > read/write date. Then why make this driver MIPS-specific? > > Otherwise we'll end with a zillion of similar > > RTC drivers like we already have for LANCE and SCC chips. > > Don't quite understand this statement. This assumed you've meant an MC146818 RTC that already has a driver for certain (but possibly not all) configurations. Since you haven't -- just forget it. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
