Re: Patch: Generic TODR for ARM ports

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:05:13PM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, but that will probably not help because netbsd is usually booted from
factory defaults (because of the screen brightness bug), so the clock is
then at 2000-01-01.

> BTW, why is RTC time invalid?
> 

The value is the uptime in seconds, even when the date is changed in
windows CE. So it seems that windows CE doesn't use it at all...

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Peter Postma