Booting Imac G5

J. Mayer l_indien at magic.fr
Thu Nov 18 01:56:59 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:48, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>> RTC is probably in the SMU...
> >>
> >> It is.
> >
> > Apple say it's an external RTC in the developper notes. The problem is
> > to get an I2C driver for the SMU. With the forth code, seems that it 
> > can
> > be made ;-)
> 
> As far as I know you just ask the SMU the time, you don't have to
> talk to the IIC yourself.  Or maybe that has changed...  checking...
> no, it hasn't (the actual commands did change, though).

OK, I made a confusion between the SMU system clock, which is accessed
via I2C and the RTC which is directly accessed.
I still need to test my code, then I will have (soon) a RTC driver...

-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien at magic.fr>
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