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SubjectRe: [patch 2.6.20-rc3 1/3] rtc-cmos driver
David Brownell wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 7:10 pm, David Brownell wrote:
>
>> On Friday 05 January 2007 12:45 pm, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> I'd appreciate if someone (Woody?) can test
>>> this code on ARM.
>>>
>> There are PPC, M68K, SPARC, and other boards that could also
>> use this; ARMs tend to integrate some other RTC on-chip. But
>> on whatever non-PC platform is involved in such sanity testing,
>> that involves adding a platform_device to board setup code.
>>
>
> Let me put that differently. That should be done as a separate
> patch, adding (a) that platform_device, and maybe platform_data
> if it's got additional alarm registers, and (b) Kconfig support
> to let that work. I'd call it a "patch #4 of 3". ;)
>
> The current Kconfig uses:
>
>
>> +config RTC_DRV_CMOS
>> + tristate "CMOS real time clock"
>> + depends on RTC_CLASS && (X86_PC || ACPI)
>>
>
> Eventually maybe the PC-or-ACPI stuff should vanish, but IMO
> not until this code has been used on a few other platforms.
>
> - Dave
>
I will try to play with the new code on Monday on ARM...

Thanks, Woody
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