RTC for MPC8xx with Linux ?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear David,

in message <200306191537.28949.david.jander at protonic.nl> you wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the answers I got over experience with the MPC852T.
> One other thing I was investigating is the RTC.
> What RTC solutionts are known for easy interfacing with MPC8xx processors,
> that work under linux ? What's the standard ?

There is no standard. The choice  is  made  by  product  requirements
(price, accuracy, battery lifetime, etc). Then the driver is dapted -
which usually is pretty trivial.

> There are a number of PC-compatible RTC chips out there, but I don't seem to
> like them much, because they're generally quite expensive, have a lot of
> functionality which might be nice, but is not really needed in my case.
> Any experience with smaller 1-bit (or SPI) RTC's under linux ? I'm looking
> basically for a Battery-backuped time-keeping counter.

See the existing driver; for example, in our kernel  trees  you  will
find support for the PCF8563, M41T11, DS12887 and similar RTCs.o

This is not a big deal. Be careful though when running  NTP  on  your
system,  especially  when  using a RTC with I2C or SPI interface. You
will have to disable the  11  minute  mode  (see  "man  hwclock"  for
details).


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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