On Wed, 7 May 2008 01:39:59 +0100 (BST) "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > While investigating why Linux on the MIPS64 Broadcom BCM91250A board (the > SWARM, based on the SiByte BCM1250A SOC) does not support an RTC device > anymore I discovered the "wiring" of code to access /dev/rtc to the RTC > device driver got removed with some changes that happened a while ago. > The board uses the ST M41T81 I2C chip with a driver buried within the > architecture code. There is a standard driver for this chip in our tree > already, which is called rtc-m41t80, and which as a part of the RTC driver > suite provides the necessary "wiring" to /dev/rtc. [...] Hi Maciej, you did a great work. you have my Acked-by on the rtc/ntp code, but I think we'd need some reports from current users of the m41t81 driver before pushing that one in. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it
