From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel•crashing.org>
To: "Goforth, Edward" <Ed.Goforth@gd-ais•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: board with no RTC
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:48:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050112164809.F22626@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A48EF7239039B48834A3F6B644B0C71EF8679@vaff06-mail01.ad.gd-ais.com>; from Ed.Goforth@gd-ais.com on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:25:45PM -0500
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:25:45PM -0500, Goforth, Edward wrote:
> We have a 440gx based custom board. I have learned that it does not
> have a RTC. Has anyone had any success with a board without a RTC, or is
> it even possible? How much of a problem will this cause?
>
> Should we get the board respun with a RTC? We would prefer using a 2.4
> kernel, but would certainly go to a 2.6 kernel if that made things
> easier.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
No problems. Just set your time from another source. Many PPC boards
do this that don't need local time retention across power cycles.
I've got a 440gx board sitting here running happily this way.
-Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-12 23:25 board with no RTC Goforth, Edward
2005-01-12 23:42 ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-01-12 23:48 ` Matt Porter [this message]
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2005-01-13 15:14 Goforth, Edward
2005-01-13 16:26 ` Matt Porter
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