IP22 RTC bug on 64bit 2.6 kernels ?

[Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>]

Hi,

For some time now, my IP22 was booting in a "back to the future" mode,
somewhere between 1983 and 1987 (usually, 1985). Interestingly enough,
only the year comes out wrong, everything else is perfectly OK.

This is not the RTC chip at fault, as everything else stored in the
NVRAM is OK too. I was prepared to order a new RTC chip, until...

Until I remembered that it all started with the new 64bit 2.6 kernels
built by Martin Michlmayr in Debian. Indeed, rebooting into a 32bit
2.4.27 the problem goes away.

Using the 2.6 kernel (2.6.17), hwclock -w/hwclock -r will not give the
same year twice in a row, which is quite fun and unexpected. I
couldn't find a logic of some kind in the values read from the RTC;
the year went as far as 1972 and as close as 2007 :)

So, it looks like there is a bug in this area with (at least) 64bit
2.6 kernels. Is there any known bug ? Anything I can do to help track
the problem down ?

Thanks,

JB.

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