On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Package: util-linux > > Version: 2.11l-1 > > Severity: important > > > > On many PowerPC machines (maybe all?), the program "clock" should be used > > from powerpc-utils. Using hwclock actually hangs the bootup procedure > > because it confuses the RTC driver in the kernel. I suggest that hwclock > > should be split into a separate package so that people can get util-linux > > functionality without rendering their systems unbootable. Or, at least make > > sure that it's not run by default on powerpc. > > Hi John, > > hwclock does currently run at bootup on all machines except PowerPC/PReP > (and s390) systems. It's no problem for me to change it, but I need an > _exact_ description on which machines it shouldn't be run (I don't have a > PowerPC machine myself). > > IOW I need a replacement for the following part of the postinst:
John, what kernel/machine do you have hwclock causing a hang? I'm not sure off the top of my head what the status is in 2.2, but 2.4 has a "proper" /dev/rtc driver. We should be using hwclock. Clock is an awful ADB-bit-bashing hack that needs to die. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
