Starting the real time clock on virgin systems

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Dec 11 09:38:01 CET 2002


On 11 Dec 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> The only problem with pc80/rtc.c is that pc80/mc14618rtc.c already
> exists and even has this code.  It is just a mater of calling: rtc_init,
> on most of the boards that need it.  It has a long name only because
> it references the original motorola part number.

OK.

> So calling rtc_init from an appropriate place appears to be all that
> is required.   Which I do from ich2_rtc_init() and ich3_rtc_init().

I wonder if we might not call rtc_init from hardware main based upon a 
config variable? CONFIG_RTC_INIT? Is there harm done if you call it but it 
did not need to be called? I have never looked at the RTC, as you can 
tell.

ron





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