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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:42:19 +0100
From:      Milan Obuch <freebsd-mips@dino.sk>
To:        Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: First RSPRO deployed !
Message-ID:  <201011171142.21067.freebsd-mips@dino.sk>
In-Reply-To: <BDCD4DC4-FEBB-401A-ACE7-5E03AB763310@gmail.com>
References:  <D74327E9-0A8A-4B46-B4DD-16D0FAF8E3BB@gmail.com> <201011170007.57640.freebsd-mips@dino.sk> <BDCD4DC4-FEBB-401A-ACE7-5E03AB763310@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 17 November 2010 10:40:45 Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Milan Obuch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 11:10:46 Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Nice to see other people work on the same board! feels like RSPRO fever!
> >> :P
> >> 
> >> Thank you for sharing your files with us. I am running freebsd from
> >> both flash (mdroot) and NFS.
> >> In both cases I get the following error RTC after adding your diffs:
> >> ...
> >> Invalid time in real time clock.
> >> Check and reset the date immediately!
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> Before your diffs I used to get:
> >> ...
> >> warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set
> >> accurately ...
> >> 
> >> Do you have any ideas what the cause could be? I can't seem to change
> >> the time with date also.
> >> Thank you again.
> > 
> > I saw this as well, but only first time after running kernel with rtc (or
> > first time after longer period without power). Maybe after setting
> > correct date it disappears? I use ntpdate to correct date/time, just a
> > bit lazy to type long string of numbers...
> 
> Exactly ! (or you have missed the rspro-rtc.diff patch which need to be
> applied after ar71xx_spi_cs_mux.diff)
> 
> But keep in your mind that the rspro rtc is not that great without a
> battery backup :/ (it won't keep the time for too many days).
> 

Well, in my case couple of hours is enough and time is invalid again :( But 
using ntpdate in a network is workaround good enough for me...

Milan



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