On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 21:08 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
Hi,
What will give me access to the RTC hardware on an old PowerMac 8600?
I modload rtc-generic. /proc/devices has:
should work with rtc generic, not sure what's up.
You can check with printk ... rtc_generic should call into get_rtc_time
Hi,
On 1/29/12, Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote:
kevin diggs diggskevi...@gmail.com writes:
Perhaps the RTC was reset due to battery running out? That would set
the year to 1900, but the kernel RTC interface cannot represent dates
before 1970. Unfortunately hwclock insists on
kevin diggs diggskevi...@gmail.com writes:
[root@PowerMac8600B root]# hwclock --debug
hwclock from util-linux-2.12pre
Using /dev/rtc interface to clock.
Last drift adjustment done at 131743 seconds after 1969
Last calibration done at 131743 seconds after 1969
Hardware clock is on
Hi,
What will give me access to the RTC hardware on an old PowerMac 8600?
I modload rtc-generic. /proc/devices has:
254 rtc
and ls -l /dev/rtc*:
crw-r--r-- 2 root root 254, 0 Sep 2 2010 /dev/rtc
crw-r--r-- 2 root root 254, 0 Sep 2 2010 /dev/rtc0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 135 Aug
