Re: clock and hwclock (was: Re: hwclock can't access /dev/rtc: solved)

[Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Luca Bigliardi - shammash <shammash@renomo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:47 PM, Joerg Sommer wrote:
>
>> This script is named hwclock.sh, which is part of util-linux. I think
>> it's not easy possible to remove hwclock from util-linux or replace it on
>> ppc by clock.
>
> a possible solution could be done starting from this old thread:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/1999/09/threads.html#00254
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/1999/10/threads.html#00000

Interessting, especially that is problem exists at least since 1999. ;-)

>> Where are the differences between hwclock and clock?
>
> IIRC hwclock uses rtc, while clock uses adb.
>
> Maybe this problem can also be solved patching hwclock making it
> adb-compatible

Has anyone did this?

Jörg.

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