On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:18:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:33:24PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:41:45PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > > > > > Has anyone considered patching the kernel config scripts so that it just > > > won't even ASK about the "Enhanced Real-time Clock", since this is 100% > > > _wrong_ for PowerPCs? > > > > It's a) ugly and b) wrong, since it does work on some PPCs. > > it might help to at least put the new CONFIG_RTC options in the same > place in the kernel configuration, and note the difference clearly in > both help options...
heh. Maybe someday. When's Alan taking over 2.4? :) > even better merge them together and make it a single intelligent > driver that Just Works on whatever hardware. That's 2.5 work, and something is planned anyways. I dunno if it'll go that far tho yet. Step 1 is to merge our 'generic' rtc driver to the m68k/apus one. Then maybe we can make the x86 one work w/in that. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
