On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Riccardo wrote:
> I don't know "how", but with 2.2 kernels I always had a correct date at
> boot without any tricks. It is true though that with high CPU load we
> had clockskew and that we didn't save back the date and hourtime to the
> clock, thus any clock setting needed to be done from the mac side. A
> compromoise, but better than the current situation.
The clockproblem is something I stumble upon every now and then on
various machinees - I really wish there was a kernel parameter where one
could set a date string, then the bootloader could pass it on.
Currently i use a /.timestamp file that I read from init=/sbin/init.noclock;
---
firda ~ # cat /sbin/init.noclock
#! /bin/bash
if test $(/bin/date +%Y) -lt 2008 ; then
/bin/date -s "1970-01-01 + $(($(/bin/stat -c %X /.timestamp) +3600))
seconds"
fi
exec /sbin/init
---
I make sure the .timestamp is touched regularly and on shutdown.
This trick I now use on quadra910, an old acer laptop, gumstix ... :P
-- kolla
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