Subject: Re: Still some problems with RTC (some progress)
To: Cory Bajus <cbajus@mts.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-next68k
Date: 04/21/2006 09:39:29
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Cory Bajus wrote:
> Ho hum, talking to myself again here... (is there anybody out there?)
Yes, but my monoslab ended up orphaned in another country when I
had to move back to the UK in a hurry :/
> I've made some progress on the problem writing to the RTC registers. It
> seems that if I use the 'burst mode' when writing (i.e. shift in only the
> address of RTC_CNTR0 and then shift in all 32 bits of the seconds
> counter) all four registers are set properly. I need to clean up my code a
> bit before posting a patch but I wanted to see if anyone can confirm the
> problem I reported above, and can help me test my patch on different
> hardware (just in case my colour slab is 'unique'). I'm also interested
> to hear if people have hardware with the older RTC (MC68HC68T1) that could
> test both the existing code and a patch to enable 'burst mode' when
> writing.
How stable are you finding your slab?
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