[RFC] generic MIPS RTC driver

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Jun Sun wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > >  Unless you use a non-MC146818 RTC, which you need to write a separate
> > > driver for anyway.
> >
> > Yep, so that's why both m68k and PPC have common routines to read/write the
> > RTC, with a /dev/rtc-compatible abstraction on top of it.
> >
>
> Geert, what is the abstraction they used?

At first sight, we only use get_rtc_time() and mach_hwclk().

> The /dev/rtc interface is highly influenced by MC146818 chip, which not all
> RTC devices are alike.  The only fundamental thing in the driver is really the
> read and write time.
>
> If their abstraction is reasonable, perhaps they can all converge to a better,
> more generic rtc interface.

Check out the following files from the m68k CVS tree (see
http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/):

  - drivers/char/genrtc.c
  - include/asm-m68k/machdep.h
  - include/asm-m68k/rtc.h

On PPC, they have something similar.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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