On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:32:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi Daniel, hi *, > > after reading this discussion I have the following questions/remarks: > > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you > will remove the clock program from powerpc-utils?
i don't see why not, its mostly cruft nowadays. only use i can think of is to check that the hwclock is truly set to UTC, /sbin/hwclock always seems to do offset calculations even when you tell it not to. > I don't have a powerpc machine but after reading this discussion it seems > that some users have problems with the CONFIG_RTC/CONFIG_PPC_RTC issue. > This should perhaps be better documented in Documentation/Configure.help? > (that's just my personal impression after reading this discussion and > without any further knowledge of this issue) it might help, but part of the problem i think is that both options are in completly separate sections. and users never rtfm anyway. > BTW: Out of interest: What is the history of the renaming of "fdisk" to > "ddisk" on powerpc? probably so this silly symlink game thats being played would be possible. boot-floppies and some package's postinst set /sbin/fdisk -> <right partitioner for this subarch> so on powermac its fdisk -> mac-fdisk, on PReP/CHRP its fdisk -> ddisk etc. i suppose that is nice for people used to just using /sbin/fdisk for partitioning, they always (assuming the b-f got it right) get the right partitioner. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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