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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:45:05 +0300
From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
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To: David Ho <DavidHo@nanometrics.ca>
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	Linuxppc-Embedded <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>,
	Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: RTC no longer exist on the 866/87x/88x
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David Ho wrote:

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>Hi 8xx gurus,
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>I just noticed the RTC is no longer documented/tested/supported on the
>duet.  How does this impact the current 2.4 8xx tree?
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>I know the /dev/rtc still uses RTC on the processor, it appears to work
>fine, but I wouldn't bet my life on it for production units.
>
I believe there's a problem with increased power consumption
by the RTC so that's why Motorola removed it from the docs.

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>How about the kernel's timing service and scheduling, does it use the
>timebase register instead?  Are these services effected at all?
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Don't worry, they're not affected at all.

>Thanks a lot,
>
>David Ho
>Nanometrics Inc.
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Regards

Pantelis


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