Starting the real time clock on virgin systems

[Eric W. Biederman]

Kevin Hester <kevinh at ispiri.com> writes:

> Yep,
> 
> When I went to go add the rtc init I discovered this.  I added a call to the 
> existing rtc_init(0) from the via southbridge setup and all was well.  It 
> seems like the consenous is to move this call into hardwaremain with some 
> sort of option driven ifdef.  True?

The consensus is that rtc_init is good.  I am leary about moving the actual
call into mainboard.c so boards don't even have a real time clock.

And I definitely need a wrapper for it on the boards I use.
Leaving the call in mainboard.c/southbridge.c is probably good for the moment.

There is some hardware description work I was playing with, and it may
be worth enhancing that architecture so that you just specify
which hardware you have and how it is all hooked up.

But I certainly don't have the time to work through what that would
take to have things work reliably.

Eric