Re: wonky time when upgrading to potato
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> Paul Slootman wrote:
> >
> > On Mon 31 Jul 2000, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >
> > > Much more probable is that one of kernels in question was compiled
> > > with an RTC support and the other without ....
> >
> > No, that's not the problem here. If it was, he wouldn't have made the
> > statement "... time seemed to jump around randomly...".
>
> This "... time seemed to jump around randomly..." is exactly what I have
> seen, for example, on UP1000 with a kernel compiled without RTC support.
> If you will read with hwclock in a loop some of returned values will
> be correct and some will jump around. How often one or another seems
> to depend on a phase of a moon.
The 1000 needs the -F option passed to the clock program, for
"Funky" clock (like the LX). take a look at this, it's been known for a
while:
http://bugs.alpha-processor.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7
--rdp
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Rich Payne
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