Re: [patch-rt 0/2] Initial ARM generic-timeofday support

[Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>]

On Jun 05 2006, at 16:06, john stultz was caught saying:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 15:29 -0700, dsaxena@plexity.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This patchset (against -rt26, but should apply to newer patch) adds
> > initial support for generic TOD on ARM. It is fairly simple and
> > copletely rips out the existing TOD code in ARM, assuming that each
> > sub-arch will either provide a clocksource or enable CONFIG_IS_TICK_BASED.
> > Currently only Versatile is supported.
> 
> Ah! Looks cool! As a warning, -rt is still running w/ an older version
> of the TOD code (B20), so some changes will be needed when -rt moves to
> the current version (C2, right now).
> 
> The main change is that the read/sync persistent clock bits got cut, so
> the clock syncing is still necessary in timer_tick(). There might be a
> few other differences but most of the changes were arch-generic so it
> shouldn't be too much of an issue.

OK, I'll keep my out for that. Actually, maybe I should send you a patch
for latest TOD code. Are there any plans to just sync the persistent
time updates with the generic RTC layer? It would require moving stuff
like the CMOS clock code to drivers/rtc, but it would provide a generic
solution.

Tnx,
~Deepak

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