From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 06:04:10 +0000 Subject: Re: Real time clock on ia64 platforms Message-Id: <20040602060410.GA10027@frankl.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <40BC3558.7040606@hob.de> In-Reply-To: <40BC3558.7040606@hob.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Christian, On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:56:49AM +0200, Christian Hildner wrote: > Matthew Wilcox schrieb: > > >On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:50:48AM +0200, Christian Hildner wrote: > > > > > >>someone may know what kind of RTC device the ia64 platforms (HP ZX 6000 > >>+ i2000) use. I want to access it directly, without using EFI calls. > >> > >> > > > >It's probably different on each of them. Why do you want to access it > >without going through firmware? > > > It's just because I need rtc information in an environment where no EFI > calls are possible. I am aware of the non-portability of doing so. But > there is no other way. > What do you mean by "rtc information"? Are you after a very fine granularity timer? -- -Stephane