Bug#782364: Actually, it makes some sense to keep both clocks

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Apr 12, 2015, at 6:10 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 01:37 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings indicates that his preference would be to disable the
>> non-battery-backed RTC and enable the battery-backed RTC in the kernel
>> for the Cubox-i4pro.
>> 
>> I’m not a kernel hacker, so what I’m about to say may be off the mark,
>> but:
>> 
>> If I’m not mistaken, this kernel is intended to be used on the entire
>> Cubox line of computers.  Only the i4Pro model has the battery-backed
>> RTC available.  The other models do not enable that hardware feature. 
> [...]
> 
> Are you saying that a single device tree is used for multiple models?
> That should not be the case.
> 
> But it looks like there are only two device trees defined for Cubox, one
> for those with the i.MX6DL and one for the i.MX6Q.  Both of which enable
> both RTCs!
> 
> So you're right, we can't just disable the non-battery-backed RTC for
> this one model.

Thanks for clarifying what I was trying to get at.

Looking forward to help test this!


> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source

Rick