Subbrathnam, Swaminathan wrote:

>       The RTC driver takes care of this anomaly at this point of time.
> The time you see will correctly reflect whether it is AM/PM.  A MSP430
> update for the same is available.

Is the updated MSP430 firmware shipping on production boards?  If so we
should switch to Dave's new driver.

Kevin



> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of David Brownell
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: DaVinci: add RTC driver
> 
> On Friday 25 August 2006 7:11 pm, David Brownell wrote:
>> Converts the old-school RTC driver over to the RTC framework.
>>
>> The MSP430 RTC firmware is pretty odd; a simple persistent seconds
>> counter (leaving Linux to convert to gregorian calendar and handle
>> DST and other timezone issues) would be a lot better.
> 
> ... speaking of which, the main glitch in that RTC code (other than
> lack of features, like RTC alarm) is that the RTC reports 12-hour times
> with no way to examine its internal AM/PM indicator.  Which means that
> the typical "load system wall clock from RTC on boot" scenario will
> produce system clocks that are wrong, about half the time, as will
> asking the RTC for the current time.
> 
> It's maybe best not to use this RTC at all.
> 
> I just thought I'd highlight that fact, in case anyone's in a position
> to update that MSP430 firmware to have reasonable RTC support.
> 
> - Dave
> 
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