Starting the real time clock on virgin systems
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederman at lnxi.com
Wed Dec 11 18:21:00 CET 2002
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
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