Bug#277298: Kernel 2.6.x real time clock hang on Dell

[Brecht Samyn <Brecht.Samyn@kulak.ac.be>]

I installed sarge (kernel 2.6.8-1-686-smp) to my PE 2850 and have the 
same problem:

*) kernel stops after saying "Real Time Clock Driver v1.12".
*) When I press ctrl-c, the booting continues until the hwclock.sh 
scripts runs, then it stops again. *) After another ctrl-c, the boot is 
complete.

The same behaviour when halting: the "hwclock.sh stop" hangs (and now 
ctrl-c doesn't work anymore ;-) ).

I can't run hwclock too:
   # hwclock -r
hangs (also while configuring the timezone during install).

brecht