Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:14:57 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor issues of time on PPC Message-ID: <42DDB3A1.5080502@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <p0623094fbf02347491f0@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0623094fbf02347491f0@[128.113.24.47]>
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> I find that if I boot into MacOS, and open up the date&time control > panel there to force a reset of the time, then the time will be > within a quarter-second of the correct time when I then reboot back > into FreeBSD. So it seems that MacOS knows to set something in the > (firmware|PRAM) that FreeBSD isn't setting? Yeh, I agree, timekeeping isn't going to be that great on FreeBSD/PPC at the moment. OpenFirmware is used to read the RTC, but it's never written back: any attempt by NTP to set the time is silently ignored. This will be fixed when the external PMU is accessed directly (needed for notebook kbd/trackpad access), so the time can actually be set. later, Peter.
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