On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:22:25PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > BTW, i didn't manage to get the generic RTC code working on my pegasos, > > and i am actually a bit pressed for time. > > > > Do you think a workaround, for the debian powerpc packages, would be to > > add a test for the presence of a pmac in the CONFIG_RTC code, and abort > > if one is found ? > > > > If so, what would be the best way to test for a pmac subarch in the > > drivers/char/rtc.c code ? > > will the kernel let you build both drivers in ?
yes, which will cause all powermacs to hang on bootup when hwclock is run. > then you can do, in 2.4, something ugly like that: > > #ifdef CONFIG_ALL_PPC > if (_machine == _MACH_Pmac) > return -ENODEV; > #endif which im betting will instead cause hwclock to fail on all powermacs with: hwclock: /dev/rtc: No such device but i could be missing something obvious with your suggestion. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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