Re: [PATCH 0/1] Enable to set RTC for beagleboard

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 06/15/11 09:25, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
> Op 15 jun 2011, om 15:21 heeft Bruce Ashfield het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On 06/15/11 06:41, Jingdong Lu wrote:
>>> From: Jingdong Lu<jingdong.lu@windriver.com>
>>>
>>> Ensure msecure is mux'd to be able to set the RTC for beagleboard.
>>> Fixes bug [YOCTO #767]
>>
>> Jingdong,
>>
>> The fix looks reasonable to me, Darren has been refreshing
>> the beagleboard support as well, so I've cc'd him here to
>> see if we have this change present in the work in progress
>> trees.
>>
>> What tests did you run to ensure that the RTC worked on
>> the beagleboard ? There was some debate around whether or
>> not you needed an add-on card to get this functionality
>> available ?
>
> You need to remove some resistors and add a battery, or add an expansionboard like the zippy or zippy2, which have a DS1307 RTC with battery.

Thanks Koen,

This confirms what I thought (zippy*), so clearly this is
either a board with that setup, or runtime testing was
.. unique. Either way, more details and research is
needed for this one.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> regards,
>
> Koen