Re: Clock drift on an iBook2

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I have a new iBook2 and I'm having *severe* clock drift problems -- on
the order of several seconds gained per minute.  I'd like to get this
taken care of, and it seems to be a linux problem as OSX appears to
have a stable clock.

I'm running BenH's 2.4.7-pre6 right now, but I also saw it on 2.4.6.

Is this a known problem?  If not, what can I do to help get this fixed?
Ethan

Are you using MOL or do you experience this with nothing special running ?

Do you have the same issue if you disable powersave_nap (/proc/sys/
kernel/powersave_nap) ?

The TB is calibrated using the VIA, if we don't have a correct VIA frequency
or if the calibration routine is slightly off, that may also explain the
problem.

Something else you can try: in arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_time.c, comment
out the call to via_calibrate_decr() (and the return too) so that
we use the device-tree "timebase-frequency" instead, and tell us if
it makes any difference.

Ben.


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