From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix RTC_CLASS regression with PARISC Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:32:25 -0700 Message-ID: <200809081632.26166.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200809081429.57805.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080908.160441.124972717.davem@davemloft.net> <1220916186.8074.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: David Miller , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1220916186.8074.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On Monday 08 September 2008, James Bottomley wrote: >=20 > > All the powerpc folks are doing is providing a dummy shim into the > > RTC layer using their machine description vector, and not really us= ing > > the RTC layer drivers at all. >=20 > But realistically that's all we need. =A0Our RTC is controlled by two > calls into firmware: a get and a set; nothing else. =A0We don't have = the > docs to get at the clock without the firmware calls. True for PARISC ... but not for PowerPC. Lots of PowerPC system boards use off-the-shelf RTCs with more capabilities than the machine description vector acknowledges. - Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html