Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:52:38 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6 I2C epson 8564 RTC chip |
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:49:45PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:40:07PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > A generic one for i2c rtcs or another generic rtc driver? There's > > already drivers/char/genrtc.c... > > genrtc.c lacks several features ARM needs, the big one being wakeup > timers. It also only provides either (configurable) emulation or no > support of various RTC features, rather than allowing a real RTC to > provide them if it can - and you need to know the details of your RTC > at kernel configuration time.
Having hacked at this, and just not having had the time to clean it up a bit more yet, did you try adding it to genrtc at least?
> It provides no support for translating "RTC" time into seconds and > vice versa which is needed for second-counter based RTCs found in > PXA, StrongARM, and other ARM SoC platforms.
It couldn't be added in?
> IOW, its fairly restrictive in what it provides and what it allows > architectures to provide.
Either way, I'd like to not have 2 generic rtc drivers if at all possible...
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