On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can 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? > > No, I'm not going to; it's obsolete, but people who can not upgrade > kernel for whatever reason may find it useful.
All right. Is the special casing of the PReP machines obsolete, too or should I keep it? > (Did you get a bug report about the clock.8.gz manpage in util-linux > now yet? It conflicts with powerpc-utils.) Yes, I'm building a fixed package at the moment. This was not related with this thread but a thinko (I replaced ifeq ($(arch), powerpc) with ifeq ($(arch), powerpc nohwclock) in debian/rules... :-((( ). > > 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) > > Probably true. More eventually, CONFIG_PPC_RTC should be merged in to > the normal RTC driver. This sounds like a very good solution that would make everyone happy. > > BTW: Out of interest: What is the history of the renaming of "fdisk" to > > "ddisk" on powerpc? > > I've no idea. I'd never heard of this, in fact. I bet it stands for > DOS fDISK; it reads DOS partition tables and not Apple ones, and > mac-fdisk supplies the 'fdisk' binary. Ah, that's the reason for it. Thanks for the information! cu Adrian -- Get my GPG key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg --import Fingerprint: B29C E71E FE19 6755 5C8A 84D4 99FC EA98 4F12 B400
