From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Basic generic time/clocksource code for PowerPC
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:05:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906170547.GA12432@iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070906170123.GA17990@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:01:23PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:55:35PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:41:38AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > This changes PowerPC to use the generic time infrastructure for
> > > gettimeofday et al. We register a clocksource which uses the timebase
> > > register, or the RTC on the 601.
> > >
> > > It also gets rid of the RTC update stuff. IIRC we discussed removing
> > > this some time ago but never actually did it.
> >
> > So who will be in charge of updating the RTC now? The update
> > every 11 min is there to stay on x86(-64) it seems.
>
> Put something in crontab to run hwclock periodically.
>
I have many machines on which cron is not even installed.
Gabriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 14:41 [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Basic generic time/clocksource code for PowerPC Paul Mackerras
2007-09-06 16:55 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-09-06 17:01 ` Scott Wood
2007-09-06 17:05 ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2007-09-06 17:24 ` Scott Wood
2007-09-07 8:21 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-09-09 9:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-10 9:09 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-09-06 18:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-07 8:50 ` Gabriel Paubert
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