Re: Hardware Clock support in 2.4

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, 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 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?

It should indeed use /dev/rtc.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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