[Cbe-oss-dev] RTC problem in PS3

[thegame4121982 at msn.com]

I've seen this before as well. Sometimes I notice it other times I don't. I 
will look more closely next time and see if it comes up. It may be a random 
issue but I am not sure.

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From: "Marvin" <marvin24 at gmx.de>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:02 PM
To: "Fabiano Manoel de Andrade" <fabianoma at gmail.com>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org>; <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>; 
<cbe-oss-dev at ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] RTC problem in PS3

> forward to a better place...
>
> On Sunday 16 November 2008 23:44:50 Fabiano Manoel de Andrade wrote:
>> Hi I've compiled the latest version of linux kernel (2.6.27.6) in my
>> PS3 running debian and get a warning message listed here
>>
>> Setting the system clock.
>>   Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
>>   Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access
>> method. * Unable to set System Clock to: Sun Nov 16 20:33:06 UTC 2008
>>
>>
>> The problem can be reproduced with the commands
>>
>> # hwclock --debug
>>  hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.13.1.1
>>   hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=2: No such file or directory.
>>   No usable clock interface found.
>>   Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
>>   # ls -l /dev/rtc*
>>   ls: cannot access /dev/rtc*: No such file or directory
>>
>> Loading the rtc-ppc module solve the problem, but after restart
>> the system I still have the problem. Looking at kernel config I change 
>> the
>> rtc-ppc to be build into kernel and this solve totally the problem. So 
>> the
>> ps3_defconfig must set the rtc-ppc to be build into kernel.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Fabiano.
>
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