On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote:
> Package: util-linux
> Version: 2.11l-1
> Severity: important
>
> On many PowerPC machines (maybe all?), the program "clock" should be used
> from powerpc-utils. Using hwclock actually hangs the bootup procedure
> because it confuses the RTC driver in the kernel. I suggest that hwclock
> should be split into a separate package so that people can get util-linux
> functionality without rendering their systems unbootable. Or, at least make
> sure that it's not run by default on powerpc.
Hi John,
hwclock does currently run at bootup on all machines except PowerPC/PReP
(and s390) systems. It's no problem for me to change it, but I need an
_exact_ description on which machines it shouldn't be run (I don't have a
PowerPC machine myself).
IOW I need a replacement for the following part of the postinst:
<-- snip -->
# Check if we are PowerPC/PReP architecture
if [ `uname --machine` = "ppc" ]
then
if [ -f /proc/cpuinfo ]
then
Arch=""
Arch=`cat /proc/cpuinfo |
(
read line;
set -- $line;
while [ "$1" != "machine" ]
do
read line;
set -- $line;
done
echo $3;
)`
fi
fi
...
# hwclock does not work on PowerPC/PReP and s390 systems
if [ "$Arch" != "PReP" -a "uname -m" != "s390" ]
then
update-rc.d -f hwclock.sh remove 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
update-rc.d hwclock.sh start 50 S . stop 25 0 6 . > /dev/null
update-rc.d -f hwclockfirst.sh remove 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
update-rc.d hwclockfirst.sh start 18 S . > /dev/null
fi
<-- snip -->
cu
Adrian
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