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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2013 21:55:43 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r250426 - head/sys/contrib/octeon-sdk
Message-ID:  <7E5E7D8A-C8BB-4660-89C2-5ED38F16F484@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACVs6=-pLML57n8APGDGWVfG39KuO-Y1U6wJZzmb7gZZjZwX%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 9, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Juli Mallett wrote:

> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Log:
>>  Both my EBH5200 and GE WANIC 6354 have a RTC as well. It looks from
>>  the Linux tree that they always include this chip in their FDT, so
>>  make support for the ds1337 opt-out rather than opt-in. Now my =
boards
>>  boot with the correct time.
>=20
> What boards did you test on without RTCs to verify that it doesn't
> cause hangs?  The fact that there are two boards not enumerated which
> did have an RTC doesn't say anything about the boards that truly
> don't.  Likewise, Linux's FDT is not authoritative for all boards.
> I'd feel better knowing this at least won't have a negative effect on
> boards without an RTC.

I don't have any boards without an RTC, but I can try wiring the RTC to =
a bugs address to see what happens. If that's an acceptable level of =
testing, I'll do that. If not, I'll enumerate.

Warner





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