Re: rtc again...

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:29:12PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

quoted

The get/set rtc stuff on powermac still needs work.  IMHO the way it
should work on powermacs is this:

- at boot, read the RTC and the xpram and apply the correction from
  the xpram

- /dev/rtc reads and writes the RTC value directly (no timezone
  correction)

- if the RTC is updated from other places in the kernel, read the
  timezone recorded in xpram and apply that correction before writing
  it to the RTC.

would this still allow for rtc in UTC?  for those of us who do not use MacOS..

Of course, at least that's how I see it. Just set all the xpram clock
variables to zero. BTW, if MacOS X claims to be a true Unix, it should
also support it.

	Gabriel.


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