On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014, Finn Thain wrote: > >> Can't just amiboot read the time from the amigaos and pass it onto > >> linux? > > > > Could be a good idea. Unfortunately I don't think the Amiga bootinfo > > records support it. The Mac bootinfo records do provide the kernel > > boot time (since some Mac RTC drivers are missing) but the kernel > > doesn't make use of this. Support for this has been requested before > > but it seems there's always more important issues to work on. > > IMHO adding bootinfo support for passing the time and rebuilding amiboot > is much more work than fixing the RTC driver. Apart from that, it > wouldn't fix the real issue.
Right. For Macs, reverse engineering efforts like mess.org may one day allow drivers to be written for RTC access for chips like Caboose, PMU, Egret etc. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.LNX.2.00.1406120948190.23320@nippy.intranet
