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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:12:49 -0800
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Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH] x86: i2c rtc instead of cmos rtc
From: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
To: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Alessandro Zummo
<alessandro.zummo@towertech.it> wrote:
>  I object to options of this kind. It took us a lot of efforts to move
>  to the new i2c model and to the concept that devices have to be declared
>  in the board support code. This kind of hack is in the opposite direction.

I see. I encountered board support code when I worked with PowerPC
boards on Linux years ago but I haven't seen this in the x86 arch
code. Can you point me to an example?

--Ed
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