From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:38:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:10186 "HELO mx0.towertech.it") by ftp.linux-mips.org with SMTP id S22034470AbYJUSiR (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:38:17 +0100 Received: (qmail 15390 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2008 20:38:16 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO i1501.lan.towertech.it) (81.208.60.204) by mx0.towertech.it with SMTP; 21 Oct 2008 20:38:16 +0200 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:38:15 +0200 From: Alessandro Zummo To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net, Linux-MIPS , Kevin Hickey Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [RFC PATCH] Au1xxx on-chip counter-as-RTC driver Message-ID: <20081021203815.1a0a246d@i1501.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <20080809161402.15e24b2e@flagship.roarinelk.net> References: <20080809161402.15e24b2e@flagship.roarinelk.net> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed X-This-Is-A-Real-Message: Yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 20834 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: alessandro.zummo@towertech.it Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:14:02 +0200 Manuel Lauss wrote: > It works so far on the DB1200 board; however it takes up > to 5 seconds until the written value actually hits the > register, so the hardware clock is always off (the minimum > seems to be 3 seconds on the DB1200). I'd like to get > some feedback on how to work around this "anomaly". Hi Manuel, any news on this driver? I'd need feedback from linux-mips to get it thru. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it