Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:32:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Hi Daniel, hi *,
>
> after reading this discussion I have the following questions/remarks:
>
> As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can
> use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you
> will remove the clock program from powerpc-utils?
No, I'm not going to; it's obsolete, but people who can not upgrade
kernel for whatever reason may find it useful.
(Did you get a bug report about the clock.8.gz manpage in util-linux
now yet? It conflicts with powerpc-utils.)
> I don't have a powerpc machine but after reading this discussion it seems
> that some users have problems with the CONFIG_RTC/CONFIG_PPC_RTC issue.
> This should perhaps be better documented in Documentation/Configure.help?
> (that's just my personal impression after reading this discussion and
> without any further knowledge of this issue)
Probably true. More eventually, CONFIG_PPC_RTC should be merged in to
the normal RTC driver.
> BTW: Out of interest: What is the history of the renaming of "fdisk" to
> "ddisk" on powerpc?
I've no idea. I'd never heard of this, in fact. I bet it stands for
DOS fDISK; it reads DOS partition tables and not Apple ones, and
mac-fdisk supplies the 'fdisk' binary.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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