Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 06:14:12PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 1999, Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > >-Shut off- RTC support in the kernel. It made mine panic on boot.
> >
> > That's probably not the solution neither. Some non-powermac PPC based
> > machines may need it (I beleive PReP uses a standard clock chip). One
> > would better fix the rtc driver to disable itself on powermacs. I'll give
> > this a look tomorrow.
MK48T59/559 on Motorola PReP systems.
> Oh, right, right! The PPC world doesn't revolve around Apple. :)
Apple people do have the prestige of being extremely noisy about their PPC
systems for being such a _small_ part of the PPC chip market. The desktop
folks have always been this way while the embedded systems continue to run
the world. :)
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Matt Porter Motorola Computer Group
matt_porter@mcg.mot.com CIBU Linux Support
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