On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 21:56, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > On my Pegasos/CHRP box, i noticed that not setting the CONFIG_RTC option > in the Character device part of the configuration (not to be confused with > the CONFIG_GENERIC_RTC and CONFIG_PPC_RTC options in the General setup > part) will cause some strange delay when setting the hardware clock on > my box, and i believe the clock will be badly set (have to check again > to confirm though). Setting CONFIG_RTC will fix that, and furthermore, > in the help of the CONFIG_RTC there is some mention of this option being > needed for using the RTC clock in a SMP compatible fashion.
Hrm... that SMP thingy is weird. CONFIG_RTC shouldn't be used on most PPCs. If GENERIC_RTC & PPC_RTC doesn't work properly, then we need to fix the pegasos patch. > So, i believe this option is needed for me, and probably also for the > powerpc-smp config. > > But, since the powerpc configurations are common to many subarch, there > is maybe a reason for not having this options set, and i would like to > know if setting it per default in the powerpc and powerpc-smp > configurations, but not in the powerpc-small one, is likely to break on > some of the supported powerps subarches out there. CONFIG_RTC will definitely break a pmac Ben.
