Subject: Re: Board names for 4xx

From: Kenneth Johansson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:11:56 +0200

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.
>
>         -- Dan

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.

--
Kenneth Johansson
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164 80 Stockholm                  [email-masked]

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