Is an RTC (Real Time Clock) required for a linux based PCI adapter board?

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* Is an RTC (Real Time Clock) required for a linux based PCI adapter board?
@ 2002-05-30 23:49 Khai Trinh
  2002-05-31  4:29 ` Matt Porter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Khai Trinh @ 2002-05-30 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-embedded


Thanks,
--Khai


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* Re: Is an RTC (Real Time Clock) required for a linux based PCI adapter board?
  2002-05-30 23:49 Is an RTC (Real Time Clock) required for a linux based PCI adapter board? Khai Trinh
@ 2002-05-31  4:29 ` Matt Porter
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matt Porter @ 2002-05-31  4:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Khai Trinh; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:49:59PM -0700, Khai Trinh wrote:

If you are asking if a battery backed RTC/NVRAM device is necessary
for the kernel...no.

You might need it for whatever your application is.  Only you
can answer that.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
porter@cox.net
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

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