Re: Hardware Clock support in 2.4

[Frank P. <fp...@zu...>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:19:27PM +0200, Arno Griffioen wrote:
> > Do the following: look for the APUS #define in drivers/char/vt.c and copy
> > the respective chunks to the 2.4 vt.c, et voil_.
> 
> Umm.. Wasn't this the 'very, very wrong m68k approach', which has been 
> intentionally dropped in 2.3.x/2.4?

I guess so.

> I remember Jes commenting that Linus et al. wouldn't accept this any
> longer and that the m68k (and thus APUS) clock handling should be 
> converted to the way the other platforms work?
> 
> AFAIK there was nobody who cared enough to build the driver, so
> it got dropped..

I really do not care what Linus thinks in this case (I think he is right), I
just want a working solution. Without effort. Yeah, I know, this is the 
wrong attitude. But as long as this kludge works and there is no proper driver
I will use it.
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