Check out the RedHat clock package o go to ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linu/Sparc/userland/clock.c
It has already been written, Tom On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Eric Delaunay wrote: > Grigory Kljuchnikov wrote: > > Hi! > > > > In which package reside clock utility? > > I don't find it anyway, but at boot time > > there is error message: > > > > /etc/init.d/rcS: clock: command not found > > There no clock program for sparc :-(( > I wrote one a year ago, by fixing the clock program from util-linux 2.5. > Now util-linux is 2.7.1 (without the sparc fix) and the clock program for i386 > is hwclock (don't remember from which package, and I don't have an immediate > access to my sparc, sorry). > > I'm thinking about a solution to provide a clock program for sparc: > 1/ either we can fix hwclock to support sparc > 2/ or write a new one dedicated to sparc. > > The former solution is a hack, because the structure of /dev/rtc on sparc is > not compatible with the one from intel. It needs a lot of #if...#endif. > Moreover, there is a lot of ISA code not really useful on sparc ;-) > > I'd rather like the latter. I could then include it in my sparc-utils package. > However, the elftoaout & piggyback programs already available in sparc-utils > are not required to run a debian/sparc system, but the clock program is. So I > could provide it as a separate binary package (same source either). > > Any comments? > > -- > Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des > militaires. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

