On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:11:56PM +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > Dan Malek wrote: > > > > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > I do wish someone else would speak up tho. Does anyone out there have an > > > opinion? > > > > If the information from /proc is just used for pretty print out of > > information, I really don't care. If there are applications that read > > this for some internal configuration and flexibility, we better have a > > standard format. > Debian uses /proc/cpuinfo to find out what utility to use for the RTC > (clock,hwclock). This could be fixed if the code from clock was integrated in > hwclock. hwclock tries every method it knows until one works.
This is no longer true. Woody anyways assumes that /dev/rtc will work in the 'standard' way. But,, debian does parse for machien type for doing board/platform specific modules. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
