From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix RTC_CLASS regression with PARISC
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:32:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809081632.26166.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220916186.8074.84.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Monday 08 September 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > All the powerpc folks are doing is providing a dummy shim into the
> > RTC layer using their machine description vector, and not really using
> > the RTC layer drivers at all.
>
> But realistically that's all we need. Our RTC is controlled by two
> calls into firmware: a get and a set; nothing else. We don't have the
> docs to get at the clock without the firmware calls.
True for PARISC ... but not for PowerPC. Lots of PowerPC
system boards use off-the-shelf RTCs with more capabilities
than the machine description vector acknowledges.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-08 15:53 [PATCH] fix RTC_CLASS regression with PARISC James Bottomley
2008-09-08 18:19 ` David Brownell
2008-09-08 18:39 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-08 19:13 ` David Brownell
2008-09-08 20:28 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-08 21:29 ` David Brownell
2008-09-08 21:35 ` David Miller
2008-09-08 23:00 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-08 23:04 ` David Miller
2008-09-08 23:23 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-08 23:32 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-09-08 23:43 ` David Miller
2008-09-08 23:29 ` David Brownell
2008-09-08 23:44 ` David Miller
2008-09-09 0:55 ` David Brownell
2008-09-09 2:52 ` David Miller
2008-09-09 3:17 ` David Brownell
2008-09-09 3:51 ` David Miller
2008-09-09 4:14 ` David Brownell
2008-09-10 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-10 21:09 ` Randy.Dunlap
2008-09-10 21:19 ` David Brownell
2008-09-10 21:20 ` David Miller
2008-09-10 21:36 ` David Brownell
2008-09-10 21:40 ` David Miller
2008-09-09 1:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-09-08 21:37 ` James Bottomley
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