Re: Real time clock on ia64 platforms

[Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de>]

Stephane Eranian schrieb:

>Christian,
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>On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:41:53AM +0200, Christian Hildner wrote:
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>>Stephane Eranian schrieb:
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>>>Christian,
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>>>On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:56:49AM +0200, Christian Hildner wrote:
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>>>>Matthew Wilcox schrieb:
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>>>>>On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:50:48AM +0200, Christian Hildner wrote:
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>It's probably different on each of them.  Why do you want to access it
>>>>>without going through firmware?
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>>>>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.
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>>>What do you mean by "rtc information"? Are you after a very fine 
>>>granularity
>>>timer?
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>>I just need access to a rtc device on the HP ZX 6000 comparable to that 
>>Dallas devices on PC boards.
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>I am sorry but I don't know that device. What functionality of that device
>is of interest to you?
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It is just getting an absolute time without any calls to firmware or linux.

Christian