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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: >> I ask because the 300 seconds uptime rings >> a bell, maybe not relevant, but suspicious at least. The kernel was >> (maybe still is) initializing the timer (if I remember correctly) subsystem >> 5 minutes before wraparound, just so it is easier to catch bugs, by making >> those wraparound bugs easier triggerable... > > ok so it might be a simple matter of putting the right "thing" into > the dtb or something. i was using the cubieboard2 dtb (which may not > actually be properly up-to-date). oh... one thing that may be keely relevant: there's no RTC on the EOMA68-A20 board. as in: the normal place where the kernel would get "time" from would be a battery-backed AXP209. in this case, however, it's powered from "cold". so it's actually quite likely to be a major bug that has simply had insufficient coverage to expose it. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
