svn commit: r250426 - head/sys/contrib/octeon-sdk

[Warner Losh]

On May 9, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Juli Mallett wrote:

> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Warner Losh <imp at 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.
> 
> 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