System time runs very slow on RiscPC

[David Joy <lists@nonlicet.co.uk>]

Hi,

I have just installed Debian on a StrongARM RiscPC and I have noticed that 
the System Time seems to lose a second or more every minute. So after a 
few hours it is hopelessly wrong.

The hardware clock is fine, and /sbin/hwclock seems to load and save 
values correctly to it. As a workaround I have set up a cron job that 
runs "hwclock --hctosys" every five minutes, but I am sure there must be a 
better way to keep the system time right. (I've tried ntp-simple - it 
doesn't seem to be able to synchronise properly. ntpdate works, but 
running it via a crontab is no better than using hwclock.)

Is this a known problem? Is there anything I can do about it?

Kernel is:
Linux version 2.4.26-riscpc (root@puffin) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 
20040429)) #26 Wed May 12 11:48:52 BST 2004

Thanks,

David