From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@austin.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: embedded list <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: 405LP RTC reset
Date: 18 Dec 2002 15:49:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1040248187.30597.47.camel@granite.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021218211556.GA8947@zax.zax>
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:15, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:38:53AM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > The only issue I can think of here is the firmware setting it
> > incorrectly or not at all. In that case, a few seconds will be expanded
> > or compressed, but that's better than time running too fast or slow
> > forever, right?
>
> That's true. Still, I think it might be worth testing what the rate
> is set to when we come in, and printing a warning if it's not what we
> expect before we adjust it. If it just silently corrects it I could
> imagine it being pretty nasty to track down why the device is
> losing/gaining time each boot.
Sounds like a very good idea. I'll add it to my list unless someone
beats me to it. :)
-Hollis
--
PowerPC Linux
IBM Linux Technology Center
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-18 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-17 18:43 405LP RTC reset Hollis Blanchard
2002-12-18 0:55 ` David Gibson
2002-12-18 15:38 ` Hollis Blanchard
2002-12-18 21:15 ` David Gibson
2002-12-18 21:49 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
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