Re: slink Tarball Progress
On Jul 29, Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
> > hwclock just barely supports non-i386 architectures, i.e. first it tries
> > some ioctl, and if that fails, it tries direct hardware access, this is so
> > it works for m68k and possibly alpha besides i386. The standard Debian init
> > scripts are designed to cope with either a 'clock' binary or a 'hwclock'
> > binary, since pmac-utils has a 'clock' binary, we should be able to use it.
Actually, there's no direct hardware access on m68k at least... all the
setting/getting is done in the kernel layer (because there are umpteen
hardware clocks on m68k: Atari, two varieties on Amiga, Mac...). Ideally
/dev/rtc should be used, but for various reasons (which I'm not exactly
clear on... probably because it's optional) it isn't.
Chris
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