Re: m68k on Amiga 1200
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014, Finn Thain wrote:
> >> Can't just amiboot read the time from the amigaos and pass it onto
> >> linux?
> >
> > Could be a good idea. Unfortunately I don't think the Amiga bootinfo
> > records support it. The Mac bootinfo records do provide the kernel
> > boot time (since some Mac RTC drivers are missing) but the kernel
> > doesn't make use of this. Support for this has been requested before
> > but it seems there's always more important issues to work on.
>
> IMHO adding bootinfo support for passing the time and rebuilding amiboot
> is much more work than fixing the RTC driver. Apart from that, it
> wouldn't fix the real issue.
Right. For Macs, reverse engineering efforts like mess.org may one day
allow drivers to be written for RTC access for chips like Caboose, PMU,
Egret etc.
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