Is an RTC (Real Time Clock) required for a linux based PCI adapter board?

Matt Porter porter at cox.net
Fri May 31 14:29:41 EST 2002


On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:49:59PM -0700, Khai Trinh wrote:

If you are asking if a battery backed RTC/NVRAM device is necessary
for the kernel...no.

You might need it for whatever your application is.  Only you
can answer that.

Regards,
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Matt Porter
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