Re: [gentoo-embedded] Getting network time early in boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Joe Sapp,

In message <4D92902B.5000300@g.o> you wrote:
>
> I've got a board with no RTC so there are some problems during boot.
> Currently there's a hack in the udev init script to get the time from the
> network (via ntp or rdate), but I'm wondering if somebody else has solved
> this in a better way.  Any ideas?

If your board uses U-Boot as boot loader, you can enable SNTP support
in U-Boot and get and set the time already there, before you even boot
into Linux.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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