Re: Stopping the timekeeper clock (Was: New Timekeeper/RAM clock stops on power loss?)

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> I haven't tried this out yet on sparc (nor sun3).  They have m48t08
> or m48t02 without a battery low flag, so there will only be the
> sysctl to stop/start the oscillator.  I don't know if their firmware
> starts the oscillator or not, [...]

In my experience, sparc ROM code always starts the oscillator during
POST.  I don't recall ever seeing a SPARC with the oscillator stopped
but the ROM code not starting it; of course, this could just be due to
limited experience with certain systems.

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