[Skiboot] [PATCH] hw/fake-rtc: Add support for emulated rtc clock

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 7 18:25:26 AEDT 2015


Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> This patch adds support for an emulated rtc clock over existing fake rtc
> implementation for generic platform (e.g BML). Presently a fake rtc
> clock is initialized when reserved region named 'ibm,fake-rtc' is
> present in the boot device tree. This mem-region points to the initial
> value of bcd coded date-time values. However as this region is in system
> memory hence its not updated with time. This results in an error from
> hwclock tool which tries to detect a change in system clock and then
> complains "Timed out waiting for time change."
>
> The patch overcomes this issue by emulating an rtc clock whose date-time
> values are calculated from the difference of current timebase and its
> value when the initial epoch was assigned. The initial epoch is set from
> the values at "ibm,fake-rtc" memory region.
>
> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, merged as of ee18d59 - into skiboot master.



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