Re: RTC Bug on Indy?
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Edwin Kwan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed "woody" on an SGI Indy. "uname -r"
> gives 2.4.16.
>
> I noticed a problem with the "Hardware Clock". Looks
> like "hwclock" could not read an hour value >= 20 (and <=23 of
> course). Writing it seems to be okay. Please see the log
> below.
>
> As a result, the system time is screwed up whenever
> I boot up the machine between 8pm and midnight. :) I glanced
> through the "hwclock" source code a bit, and I suspect this is
> a bug in the kernel (ioctl call). Right? Which version has
> this fixed? Any other suggestion?
Kernel 2.4.22 with hwclock from util-linux-2.11z works allright on my
DECstation 5000/133, hwclock from util-linux-2.11n gave an error with
kernel 2.4.22. I pulled 2.4.22 from CVS and util-linux-2.11z source from a
Debian mirror.
Regards,
Richard
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