Re: Patch: Generic TODR for ARM ports

"Valeriy E. Ushakov" <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:05:13 +0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcarm
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On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 16:46:32 +0200, Peter Postma wrote:

> I can add an RTC driver, but I'm not sure how useful that would be,
> the RTC value is invalid at boot-time

hpcboot passes current time to the kernel as part of bootinfo.  It
will be off by several seconds by the time the kernel starts, but
that's still better than fs time.

BTW, why is RTC time invalid?

SY, Uwe
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