Bigger/better RTC stuffs (Was Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run)
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:18:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:33:24PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:41:45PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone considered patching the kernel config scripts so that it just
> > > won't even ASK about the "Enhanced Real-time Clock", since this is 100%
> > > _wrong_ for PowerPCs?
> >
> > It's a) ugly and b) wrong, since it does work on some PPCs.
>
> it might help to at least put the new CONFIG_RTC options in the same
> place in the kernel configuration, and note the difference clearly in
> both help options...
heh. Maybe someday. When's Alan taking over 2.4? :)
> even better merge them together and make it a single intelligent
> driver that Just Works on whatever hardware.
That's 2.5 work, and something is planned anyways. I dunno if it'll go
that far tho yet. Step 1 is to merge our 'generic' rtc driver to the
m68k/apus one. Then maybe we can make the x86 one work w/in that.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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