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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:20:53 +0200
From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
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To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH 1/2] Allow to override the hctosys RTC using
 a kernel parameter
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Am 07.07.2014 13:30, schrieb Roman Fietze:
> Hello RTC maintainers and list members,
> 
> I would like to hear your criticism about the following two small
> patches.
> 
> These patches allow to overwrite the hctosys RTC specified in the
> kernel config using CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE.
> 
> The background ist, that we have two almost identical x86 boards from
> MEN in Nuernberg. The first one buffers the CMOS RTC, the other one
> buffers an additional Epson RX8581 I2C RTC. We would like to use the
> same kernel, but the only parameter we could not overwrite when
> starting the kernel or system was the RTC used to initialize the
> system clock.

You might have a look at a year old thread with working patches which
does a bit more too:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/13/6

Regards,

Alexander Holler

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