Re: RTC no longer exist on the 866/87x/88x

David Ho wrote:

Hi 8xx gurus,

I just noticed the RTC is no longer documented/tested/supported on the
duet.  How does this impact the current 2.4 8xx tree?

I know the /dev/rtc still uses RTC on the processor, it appears to work
fine, but I wouldn't bet my life on it for production units.

I believe there's a problem with increased power consumption
by the RTC so that's why Motorola removed it from the docs.

How about the kernel's timing service and scheduling, does it use the
timebase register instead?  Are these services effected at all?

Don't worry, they're not affected at all.

Thanks a lot,

David Ho
Nanometrics Inc.

Regards

Pantelis


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