TODC on ppc440

Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net
Fri Apr 22 10:48:33 EST 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:32:43PM -0700, Shawn Jin wrote:
> Our SoC using ppc440 core will run on an emulator first. It doesn't
> have an external RTC. Hence time_init, set_rtc_time, get_rtc_time of
> ppc_md are all set to NULL. No TODC_ALLOC() is defined.
> 
> I'm wondering if todc is vital to make OS run correctly. Is there any
> other choice?

No, RTC isn't required for Linux to run, but usually is useful to 
have.

-- 
Eugene




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