RTC failure in January (was: New significant speedups coming to FreeRunner)

Tue Feb 23 23:40:26 CET 2010

On 23 February 2010 18:18, Sebastian Reichel <elektranox at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> what happened with this patch? My FR ran out of power, which
> resulted in a reset RTC. Now I can't set it back to current time,
> because of hwclock's read.

I wasn't able to test it myself, because I don't have a
cross-compilation setup, and I never heard of anyone else trying it
either.
For me, the problem was actually "solved" by trying out SHR-T briefly
- while still in January. Then when I switched back to Debian, the
RTC was fine again. I remember thinking that I understood this at the
time, but right now I can't remember the detailed explanation.
In fact, if switching temporarily to another distro/kernel works for
you (and for anyone else), that's probably better than having cruft
like this patch in your ongoing kernel.
Regards,
 Neil