From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm: mvebu: add RTC support for Armada 370 and Armada XP
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:18:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121211091816.63e99769@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121211060050.GC25466-g2DYL2Zd6BY@public.gmane.org>
Dear Andrew Lunn,
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:00:50 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> This is not actually true. Its dependent on at least one external
> component, a battery. The driver determines at load time if the clock
> is ticking.
>
> There are a few Kirkwood and XP designs which use an external i2c RTC,
> because the battery recommended by Marvell is mechanically not so easy
> to attached to the board, in a robust way.
>
> So i expect some boards will disable this from there own .dts file.
> However, defaulting to enabled would make sense.
Ok, thanks for the clarification!
Indeed, the OpenBlocks for example has a RTC on I2C, so maybe it'll
want to disable the on-SoC RTC.
Best regards,
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-11 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-10 10:42 [PATCH 0/2] add RTC support for Armada 370 and Armada XP Gregory CLEMENT
[not found] ` <1355136122-30729-1-git-send-email-gregory.clement-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-10 10:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm: mvebu: " Gregory CLEMENT
[not found] ` <1355136122-30729-2-git-send-email-gregory.clement-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-10 15:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-12-10 21:47 ` Grant Likely
2012-12-10 22:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-12-11 6:00 ` Andrew Lunn
[not found] ` <20121211060050.GC25466-g2DYL2Zd6BY@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-11 8:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-12-10 10:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: rtc-mv: Add the device tree binding documentation Gregory CLEMENT
[not found] ` <1355136122-30729-3-git-send-email-gregory.clement-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-10 13:39 ` Jason Cooper
[not found] ` <20121210133914.GH21694-u4khhh1J0LxI1Ri9qeTfzeTW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-10 21:49 ` Grant Likely
2012-12-10 10:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] add RTC support for Armada 370 and Armada XP Andrew Lunn
2012-12-10 14:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-12-10 14:17 ` Gregory CLEMENT
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