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> We are running RTC on mpc860 board with external crystal...
> We are getting 4 minutes drift for 21 hours.

A slowdown in the approx. range 1:300 to 1:350 is endemic to linux ppc:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157581

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