Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 01:35:38 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@jules.DIALix.oz.au Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEVFS on FreeBSD 2.0 Message-ID: <199412281435.BAA30737@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>1/ at device probe time, 'time' has not been initialised.. so any devices >that are placed into the devfs at boot time end up with creation times >of Jan 1 1970.. (time.tv_sec == time.tv_usec == 0). >Is there a reason that the RTC can't be read earlier? I've just been looking at the clock initializaton order. I moved initialization of the RTC later :-). It's still before the RTC date is read, but after all the non-clock devices have been initialized. There's nothing to stop reading it earlier, but if the RTC is on local time then it's hard to adjust it earlier. It could be adjusted at mountroot() time using a value read from the disk. Bruce
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