*  The /dev/rtc interface will block on reads until an interrupt
 *  has been received. If a RTC interrupt has already happened,
 *  it will output an unsigned long and then block.

Paul Gortmaker's  rtctest (included below) works really well on my x86
machine  (driver/char/rtc.c) as a nice way for a user process to wait on 
ticks
of a programable frequency (via ioctl).

Under Denx linuxppc_2_4_devel MPC5200 I've tried:
    driver/char/rtc.c - kernel panics
       seems to need a RTC_IRQ to be defined
       include/linux/mc14681rtc.h mentions #define RTC_IRQ 8 ?
    CONFIG_PPC_RTC also panics
    driver/char/genrtc.c (with #define CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X)
       sort of works but I get the following:
       gen_rtc_interrupt: system delaying clock ticks?

The internal MPC5200 RTC doesn't seem supported.
I see a lot of references to external RTCs, probably because
the standby power for the 5200 is high. I would like to
use a timer as the RTC interrupt and add an external RTC
later as a time reference (none on Lite5200 dev brd).
How best can I assign a GPTx as an interrupt? other than re-write
genrtc.c?

thanks,
Frank Bennett




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