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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I know nothing of this part of the Linux boot process. If it's |
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> *fairly* simple can someone point me at the right stuff to understand |
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> how Gentoo creates a link from /dev/rtc to rtc0? When in the boot |
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> process does this link become valid? |
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> Is it something that's held in a file and recreated from that file |
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> on each boot? Is it created automagically by Gentoo Angels that look |
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> after my well being but seldom reveal themselves? Is it created by the |
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> kernel itself when something is specifically configured to do so? |
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> Something else? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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> |
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> lightning src # uname -a |
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> Linux lightning 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #6 Fri Jan 30 18:55:56 PST 2009 |
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> x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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> lightning src # ls -al /dev/rtc* |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-01-30 10:58 /dev/rtc -> rtc0 |
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> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 254, 0 2009-01-30 10:58 /dev/rtc0 |
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> lightning src # |
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From my understanding udev creates all the "stuff" in /dev. You can |
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change the rules that it uses to make them tho. I think there is |
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documentation on gentoo.org to help with that. So far, mine has worked |
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well enough. Lucky I guess. |
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That help? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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