On 03/30/2011 04:59 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Joe Sapp, > > In message <[email protected]> you wrote: >> >> I've got a board with no RTC so there are some problems during boot. >> Currently there's a hack in the udev init script to get the time from the >> network (via ntp or rdate), but I'm wondering if somebody else has solved >> this in a better way. Any ideas? > > If your board uses U-Boot as boot loader, you can enable SNTP support > in U-Boot and get and set the time already there, before you even boot > into Linux.
It does use U-Boot, so maybe a combination of this and swclock (from sys-apps/openrc) is the most reliable way to set the time for my application. Thanks all for the ideas. Joe
