On Wed, 17 May 2006, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:24 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > Which driver do you use for /dev/rtc? I couldn't find it at first sight.
> > >
> > > s390 does not have /dev/rtc.
> >
> > IC.
> >
> > If you want it, you can easily have it by adding the appropriate genrtc
> > glue.
>
> Hmm, so far s390 has lived quite happily without /dev/rtc. What is the
> added benefit to have an emulation of a hardware interface that doesn't
> exists for the architecture ?
hwclock(8) can query the hardware clock?
Originally hwclock used direct I/O accesses, which of course work on PC
hardware only, but on `newer' systems it uses /dev/rtc.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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