Question on RTC options (CONFIG_RTC, CONFIG_GEN_RTC, CONFIG_PPC_RTC)

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:23:26PM -0500, Tolunay Orkun wrote:
> > GEN_RTC is a generic RTC driver, which offers hooks to the architectures
> > to do the hw-specific portions.  This _could_ be made to work with RTCs
> > over I2C, but at this time does not.
>
> Can you offer some info/pointers regarding what do I need to implement to
> get the generic driver work with my board?
>
> > PPC_RTC is like the above, except it calls the PPC hooks directly, and
> > is obsolete (and gone in 2.6).
>
> These hooks are ppc_md.get_rtc_time and ppc_md.set_rtc_time right? I was
> thinking of providing these functions in arc/ppc/platforms/csb272.c but if
> this driver is obsolete, I would rather use the generic interface above.

The generic driver makes use of the ppc_md.*_rtc_time hooks, so that's
the right place to start.  See include/asm-ppc/genrtc.h for the
PPC-specific portions of the genrtc driver, and these bits are what have
to return the right values for your board/rtc chip.

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