[RFC/PATCH 1/2] Basic generic time/clocksource code for PowerPC

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:05:47PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:01:23PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 06:55:35PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > > So who will be in charge of updating the RTC now? The update 
> > > every 11 min is there to stay on x86(-64) it seems.
> > 
> > Put something in crontab to run hwclock periodically.
> 
> I have many machines on which cron is not even installed.

OK, so use something else that waits in a loop and periodically updates
the clock.  It shouldn't be the kernel's responsibility.

-Scott