On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 00:16 -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I just sent a patch series to linux-mips@ that enables the RTC on a
> particular Broadcom MIPS motherboard (BCM91250A SWARM). The RTC is an
> M41T80.
>
> When I first found the patchset (it was originally sent a a few years
> ago) and applied it to 2.6.37, it worked perfectly.
>
> Applied to 3.x (and I think even 2.6.38) I get the following when I run
> hwclock:
>
> # hwclock --systohc
> select() to /dev/rtc0 to wait for clock tick timed out
>
> dmesg shows:
>
> [ 1.068000] i2c /dev entries driver
> [ 1.072000] i2c-sibyte: i2c SMBus adapter module for SiByte board
> [ 1.080000] rtc-m41t80 1-0068: chip found, driver version 0.06
> [ 1.088000] rtc-m41t80 1-0068: rtc core: registered m41t81 as rtc0
> [ 1.172000] rtc-m41t80 1-0068: setting system clock to 2011-08-18
> 19:56:53 UTC (1313697413)
>
> I'm emailing you because I thought it might be the same problem as
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/20/306
Hmm. I thought we had gotten one that sorted.
> Do you know what might be the problem?
I'll take a look and see what I find.
Thanks for the report!
-john
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