From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastian Blank Subject: Re: Debian parisc config for 2.6.26 broke the real time clock Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:29:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20080909182952.GA3751@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> References: <1220713586.3430.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080908163703.GA3218@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> <1220893102.8074.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080909165835.GB1447@colo.lackof.org> <1220982515.3334.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080909180127.GA2712@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> <1220983921.3334.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: dann frazier , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, Parisc List , debian-hppa@lists.debian.org To: James Bottomley Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1220983921.3334.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Resent-Message-ID: <2lO9RKStlTB.A.o-D.wCsxIB@liszt> List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:12:01PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:01 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:48:35PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > > They certainly have to be inessential to the parisc ABI ... they don't > > > work if anything's actually trying to use them. > > Really? Which sort of "don't work" is this? Why should a I2C rtc device > > (some dallas chip) not work? > Um, because the architecture doesn't have an i2c bus. Well, it have USB, so can also power usb-to-i2c adapters. And there is even the rtc test module. Which "don't work" do you refer to? - Does not work because there is no binding to the hardware. - Does not work because a fundamental problem in the whole subsystem. (- Does not work because ...) Bastian -- You're dead, Jim. -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown