From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 04:02:51 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Gabriel Paubert , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: rtc again... Message-ID: <20000812040251.C1645@plato.local.lan> References: <14735.25805.953473.825729@argo.linuxcare.com.au> <14740.61112.962127.150660@argo.linuxcare.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4NAIfEpSjlXpZEyn" In-Reply-To: <14740.61112.962127.150660@argo.linuxcare.com.au>; from paulus@linuxcare.com.au on Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:29:12PM +1000 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --4NAIfEpSjlXpZEyn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:29:12PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: >=20 > The get/set rtc stuff on powermac still needs work. IMHO the way it > should work on powermacs is this: >=20 > - at boot, read the RTC and the xpram and apply the correction from > the xpram >=20 > - /dev/rtc reads and writes the RTC value directly (no timezone > correction) >=20 > - if the RTC is updated from other places in the kernel, read the > timezone recorded in xpram and apply that correction before writing > it to the RTC. would this still allow for rtc in UTC? for those of us who do not use MacO= S.. --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --4NAIfEpSjlXpZEyn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --4NAIfEpSjlXpZEyn-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/