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On 08/02/2014 00:23, Juli Mallett wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Nathan Dorfman wrote:
>>>>> Looking at the '/var/log/dmesg' from one of these running the linux
>>>>> system, I didn't see anything related to a RTC/TOD clock, but I might
>>>>> have just missed it in my quick scan of the devices.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think there is a hardware clock on the device, though I could
>>>> be wrong.
>>>
>>> There doesn't appear to be one.  'hwclock' can't find a clock at
>>> /dev/rtc0?,
>>> and there's nothing in the dmesg relating to any form of hardware clock.
>>>
>>> As well, looking at the board, there's no battery present.  So even if
>>> there
>>> was a clock, it would be reset anytime the board lost power.
>>>
>>>> I bet the vendor firmware has NTP on by default, though.
>>>
>>> They do, using n.ubnt.pool.ntp.org.
>>>
>>
>> i see this is working on the edgerouter lite version, any chance it will
>> also work on the pro version???
>
>
> The most likely scenario is that very minor changes will be required to
> support the additional model, possibly as little as just recognizing its
> model identifier.
>
> Juli....

IIRC the bigger variants are Octeon II with hardware switches (likely 
marvell/broadcom) - what are the chances of getting support for either 
given the NDA requirements?