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On 03/30/2011 04:59 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: |
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> Dear Joe Sapp, |
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> In message <4D92902B.5000300@g.o> you wrote: |
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>> I've got a board with no RTC so there are some problems during boot. |
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>> Currently there's a hack in the udev init script to get the time from the |
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>> network (via ntp or rdate), but I'm wondering if somebody else has solved |
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>> this in a better way. Any ideas? |
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> If your board uses U-Boot as boot loader, you can enable SNTP support |
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> in U-Boot and get and set the time already there, before you even boot |
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> into Linux. |
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It does use U-Boot, so maybe a combination of this and swclock (from |
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sys-apps/openrc) is the most reliable way to set the time for my application. |
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Thanks all for the ideas. |
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Joe |
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