On Jul 29, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: > > hwclock just barely supports non-i386 architectures, i.e. first it tries > > some ioctl, and if that fails, it tries direct hardware access, this is so > > it works for m68k and possibly alpha besides i386. The standard Debian init > > scripts are designed to cope with either a 'clock' binary or a 'hwclock' > > binary, since pmac-utils has a 'clock' binary, we should be able to use it.
Actually, there's no direct hardware access on m68k at least... all the setting/getting is done in the kernel layer (because there are umpteen hardware clocks on m68k: Atari, two varieties on Amiga, Mac...). Ideally /dev/rtc should be used, but for various reasons (which I'm not exactly clear on... probably because it's optional) it isn't. Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | My home page: | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/ | | | | | Amiga A4000/040 and | Join the party that opposed the CDA | | Linux/m68k 2.0.33pl1 | http://www.lp.org/ | ============================================================================= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
