NVRAM/RTC

[Matt Porter]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:50:23PM +0530, Aman wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I have customized board , which has PPC 440GP as its processor. In this
> board there is no NVRAM/RTC as in the 440GP evalkit. In the Rom monitor,
> configuration related to it NVRAM/RTC has been removed. Because of this
> changes in the rom monitor code, the linux image is hanging after " Now
> Booting the Kernel". If  NVRAM/RTC EBC bank1 is enabled in rom monitor, the
> linux image is executing without any problem. Can anyone say , how to
> disable the NVRAM/RTC option in the linux kernel.

Are you trying to run an ebony image on this board?  Sounds like it,
and that would be the wrong thing to do.  Make a new port, and
in your <board>.c file, don't ioremap the RTC area (since you don't
have one) and delete (or set NULL) all the time/nvram machdeps.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
porter at cox.net
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