Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:15:44 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] don't offer GEN_RTC on ia64 |
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>>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:37:48 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> said:
Bjorn> I'd actually like to do that, but that's a longer-term Bjorn> project. And I don't know the history behind efi_rtc, so Bjorn> maybe there's a good reason for it being separate.
AFAIR, when efirtc was being written, the normal RTC driver was specific to the PC clock chips (mc14whatever) and it wasn't clear whether it should even try to be generic. I don't think anybody is particularly attached to the bits.
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