Subject: Re: RTC on 2.6.36 for PowerMac 8600

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:29:59 +0100

kevin diggs <[email-masked]> writes:

> [root@PowerMac8600B root]# hwclock --debug
> hwclock from util-linux-2.12pre
> Using /dev/rtc interface to clock.
> Last drift adjustment done at 1317444443 seconds after 1969
> Last calibration done at 1317444443 seconds after 1969
> Hardware clock is on local time
> Assuming hardware clock is kept in local time.
> Waiting for clock tick...
> /dev/rtc does not have interrupt functions. Waiting in loop for time
> from /dev/rtc to change
> RTC_RD_TIME: Invalid argument

Perhaps the RTC was reset due to battery running out?  That would set
the year to 1900, but the kernel RTC interface cannot represent dates
before 1970.  Unfortunately hwclock insists on reading the RTC even when
you just want to write to it, so you cannot fix that with hwclock -w.
When the battery of my iBook has run out I'm using the following to
reset RTC to current time so that it is usable again.

Andreas.

#include <time.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/rtc.h>

int
main (void)
{
  time_t now;
  struct tm gmt;
  struct rtc_time rtc;
  int fd;

  now = time (0);
  gmt = *gmtime (&now);
  rtc.tm_sec = gmt.tm_sec;
  rtc.tm_min = gmt.tm_min;
  rtc.tm_hour = gmt.tm_hour;
  rtc.tm_mday = gmt.tm_mday;
  rtc.tm_mon = gmt.tm_mon;
  rtc.tm_year = gmt.tm_year;
  rtc.tm_wday = gmt.tm_wday;
  rtc.tm_yday = gmt.tm_yday;
  rtc.tm_isdst = gmt.tm_isdst;
  fd = open ("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY);
  if (fd < 0)
    fd = open ("/dev/rtc0", O_RDONLY);
  if (fd < 0)
    {
      perror ("/dev/rtc");
      return 1;
    }
  if (ioctl (fd, RTC_SET_TIME, &rtc) < 0)
    {
      perror ("RTC_SET_TIME");
      return 1;
    }
  return 0;
}

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