Wolfgang Denk wrote: [ snip ] >>Ok, well I've successfully compiled with CONFIG_HARD_I2C and have >>communicated with my clock, so that is good. Next up is transferring the >>date in u-boot to linux, but I'm sure that will be documented somewhere. >> >> > >You don't "transfer" the daye. Linux will pick it up itself (which >requires an RTC driver and eventually some modifications). >
Let me check that I understand: As far as I can see the u-boot realtime clock drivers just allow you to set and read the time from the u-boot command line; a useful utility. If linux is to read the time from the realtime clock it must have a realtime clock driver of its own; there's no way that u-boot can pass the time to linux at boot time? (Of course, this would be fraught with difficulties, because depending on how fast your cpu boots linux, a different amount of time would elapse before linux could actually do something with the passed date stamp). So, next up for me is to write a linux driver for the ds1307. I was actually in the middle of that before getting sidetracked by the u-boot rtc code. However, the u-boot code has enabled me to hardware debug my realtime clock circuit, so that was very useful. Has anyone written a linux driver for the ds1307 or similar? (I'm cross posting to the linuxppc-embedded list to ask this question). >>As for CONFIG_SOFT_I2C; Attached (really this time) is a diff between >>the original u-boot-0.4.0/include/configs/TQM823L.h and the one that I >>have altered. The compile of soft_i2c.c fails with the following error >>messages: >> >> > >That's because you did not define the required macros (see for >example the configuration in lwmon.h). > > Right, so it's not the case that you just #define CONFIG_SOFT_I2C; you have to correctly define the macros. I shall do some work on the readme and post a diff later on. Thanks for the pointers. best, Seb ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
