From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Takashi Oe , Subject: Re: rtc again... Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 13:25:31 +0200 Message-Id: <20000805112531.1840@192.168.1.10> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >As Geert has pointed out, hwclock can give UTC or local time to /dev/rtc, >why don't we just let userland deal with this local time issue. What I >mean is for pmac_set_rtc_time(), let's change: That would give us back what we had at the beginning. This way, userland is solely responsible for this setup, which means it will be wrong on 50% of user machines (but that's user fault isn't it ?) and which means the kernel will boot with a wrong time, at least until the userland init script takes over. I don't see why it's such a mess to simply read the default values from xpram so we are consistent with MacOS. But everything in Linux is a mess anyway... Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/