rtc on PowerMac7,3

2011-02-23 Thread kevin diggs
Hi, Sorry for the noise. How do I access the rtc on a PowerMac7,3 (dual 2.5 GHz 970FX) using 2.6.36? rtc-generic does not seem to work. It will work on my 8600. I do see this: [ 15.014542] rtc-generic rtc-generic: rtc core: registered rtc-generic as rtc0 Is it the hwclock binary: hwclock fro

Re: rtc on PowerMac7,3

2011-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:39 -0600, kevin diggs wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the noise. > > How do I access the rtc on a PowerMac7,3 (dual 2.5 GHz 970FX) using > 2.6.36? rtc-generic does not seem to work. It will work on my 8600. I > do see this: > > [ 15.014542] rtc-generic rtc-generic: rtc core

Re: rtc on PowerMac7,3

2011-02-23 Thread kevin diggs
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> [   15.014542] rtc-generic rtc-generic: rtc core: registered rtc-generic as >> rtc0 > > rtc-generic should work... > > Cheers, > Ben. > It probably does on everyone else's 7,3. The 8600 probably infected it. ... I hear the two of t

Re: rtc on PowerMac7,3

2011-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 17:24 -0600, kevin diggs wrote: > It probably does on everyone else's 7,3. The 8600 probably infected > it. ... I hear the two of them out there late at night. Mumbling to > each other ... plotting ... Not sure, I haven't looked at that RTC stuff for ages. Basically the platf

Re: rtc on PowerMac7,3

2011-02-24 Thread kevin diggs
Hi, Thanks for taking some of your valuable time to reply. Now I can't get it to fail. I don't know what I did wrong??? These things are tryin' to push me over the edge! Part of the problem may be the /dev/rtc (10:135 or whatever the PC numbers are) PC device that gets put into /dev/ (udev) on Y