Am 13.06.2014 05:01, schrieb Robert Nelson:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Justin Morgan <jdm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed a difference in behavior between the latest Angstrom Linux
>> image and the latest Debian image available for the BeagleBone Black when it
>> comes to enumerating the real-time clocks present when a RTC "Cape" is
>> "present". [I have the actual clock present by use of a generic breakout
>> board, but not the actual cape.]
>>
>> I am trying to determine if Angstrom Linux has a patch that is not present
>> in Debian, as I prefer the RTC behavior I am seeing in Angstrom. (I'd think
>> Debian would want the Angstrom behavior, because if the user has attached an
>> RTC, then there is most likely a battery backing it; the BBB currently does
>> not support shutdown to the RTC rail only, so the on-board RTC is going to
>> be wrong on a cold boot.)
>>
>> When I tell Angstrom that I have a "BB-BONE-RTC" cape attached, my RTC (the
>> DS1307) is enumerated as /dev/rtc0. As such, my clock becomes the clock that
>> is used to set the system clock, and is otherwise going to get all of the
>> privileges of being the first RTC.
>>
>> When I tell Debian that I have a "BBB-RTC-01" cape attached, the on-board
>> RTC is still enumerated as /dev/rtc0. My RTC is enumerated as /dev/rtc1. As
>> such, the clock is wrong on boot.
>>
>> I used different capes because I was going for firmware already on the BBB.
>> I don't see anything about either DTO that explains the difference in
>> behavior.
> 
> Well, i just compared Angstrom's config with the one i've been pushing
> out for our 3.8 branch.. No difference an any "RTC" config's..
> 
> Probally comes down to Angstrom's much newer version of systemd, or
> something custom.

You might have an interest in 3 old patches from me I've just posted
again for someone else: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/13/6

These patches make it possible to choose the used RTC by driver name.

Regards,

Alexander Holler

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