mk48txx

Nick Hibma nick at van-laarhoven.org
Sat Dec 9 11:19:32 PST 2006


> On platforms which don't use genclock(4), yet, sys/kern/subr_rtc.c
> will clash with the MD RTC driver, f.e. with sys/i386/isa/clock.c.
> So far mk48txx(4) is only used on FreeBSD/sparc64 and requires
> eeprom(4) and genclock(4) to be actually usable. For compile-
> testing changes to mk48txx(4) on another platform, cross-compiling
> the sparc64 GENERIC is probably the simplest approach.
> AFAICT the reset pin of the MK48Txx watchdog is only connected to
> something in Sun E250, E450 and Exx00 but one can actually test
> the watchdog support in the driver in any sun4u machine where
> eeprom(4) attaches by observing the MK48TXX_FLAGS_WDF bit.

Sun? Enlightning.

>> What's it do anyway? No manpage.
>
> I didn't get around to adapt the NetBSD mk48txx.4 so far but
> the user point of view is covered by eeprom.4.

I would like to suggest that you spend two hours putting in a very basic 
man page. Rip out the guts of an existing one and fill in the blanks 
with a few details. It makes the driver so much more finished and it 
might just be that someone updates the page.

Nick


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