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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:10:25 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Subject: Re: ppc -> powerpc : where is 11 min rtc update gone ?
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Philippe De Muyter writes:

> I have a ARCH=powerpc linux-2.6.25-rc6 linux running with an i2c rtc chip,
> and synchronized to a ntp server.
> 
> I noticed that my rtc chip does not get updated by the kernel, just like
> it would be on all other architectures (included ppc).

That is now supposed to be done by the code inside #ifdef
CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE in kernel/time/ntp.c.

Paul.