Starting the real time clock on virgin systems

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Kevin Hester wrote:

> I'm in favor of option 3, but I thought I'd ask first.  I think this problem 
> would apply to any board.  The reason we haven't seen it before is that most 
> folks are running linux bios on boards that once had a standard bios.  The 
> standard bios has already 'activated' the RTC updates.

how about in a new file pc80/rtc.c. That is where legacy pc files are. In 
the rtc.c file you can set up the code to do this. We'll make its 
inclusion conditional on a config variable. 

I actually did have this same problem on the l440gx, but never knew what 
it was ... 

thanks

ron