Hello ! I was trying to use my favorite MIDI sequencer (MusE), as packaged for powerpc-unstable (yes, I'm a switcher ;). It uses /dev/rtc for realtime sync, and crashes miserably when trying to do whatever with it.
After I gave a glance at the kernel tree, I can see we currently have two rtc drivers : - a "generic" (actually works for sparc and i386 only) rtc driver in drivers/char/rtc.c ; - a dedicated mac rtc driver (drivers/macintosh/rtc.c) that implements only a short subset of the /dev/rtc ioctls. Basically. It is used only to get precise time information, whereas the mainstream one can be used to get an interrupt-based ticker. Would anybody have further info on this issue ? I don't know enough about the ppc architecture to tell whether this set of features could be ported to ppc. But if it is doable, giving it a shot would be an important itch I could scratch. Fabrice
