From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:35:30 +1000 From: David Gibson To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Board names for 4xx Message-ID: <20010918103530.B1183@zax> References: <20010914144403.G3851@zax> <20010914072847.R21906@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> <20010917122828.J3851@zax> <20010916211605.D14279@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> <3BA61D1A.3A79E5B9@mvista.com> <3BA620CC.3ACD0547@inn.ericsson.se> <20010917113345.A23163@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010917113345.A23163@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:33:45AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:11:56PM +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > Dan Malek wrote: > > > > > > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > > > I do wish someone else would speak up tho. Does anyone out there have an > > > > opinion? > > > > > > If the information from /proc is just used for pretty print out of > > > information, I really don't care. If there are applications that read > > > this for some internal configuration and flexibility, we better have a > > > standard format. > > Debian uses /proc/cpuinfo to find out what utility to use for the RTC > > (clock,hwclock). This could be fixed if the code from clock was integrated in > > hwclock. hwclock tries every method it knows until one works. > > This is no longer true. Woody anyways assumes that /dev/rtc will work in > the 'standard' way. But,, debian does parse for machien type for doing > board/platform specific modules. Yes, but last I checked the util-linux install script would still die if the machine: field wasn't present at all. IIRC it was checking for PReP machines for some reason. -- David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and | wrong. -- H.L. Mencken http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/