Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:37:53 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
Cc: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>, geert@linux-m68k.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] [Kconfig] disable GEN_RTC on ia-64
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:43:13PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:

> IA-64 does not have a directly accessible real-time clock.  As far as
> I know the only method to access the clock on this platform is to go
> through EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface, like a BIOS), which is
> handled by efirtc.c.

I think that this is the wrong approach.  genrtc allows the platform to
specify how the rtc is to be accessed.  Therefore, efirtc.c could quite
probably be removed in favor of genrtc.c, if the proper read/write
functions are provided, and if genrtc gets alarm code, which is
something others (rmk at least) have asked for.

--=20
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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