Real Time Clock

[Bill Fink]

Hi Tom,

On Thu Jun 17 2004, Thomas E.  Butler wrote:

> I am building Linux kernels on a PowerBook G4.  I find that when I build
> a Kernel with Enhanced RTC enabled in the configuration file(using make
> menuconfig after make mrproper),  attempts to boot up the resulting
> kernel result in the bootup hanging at the "Configuring kernel
> parameters" prompt.  Does anyone know why this is happening ?  Is there
> an alternate approach to enabling a Real Time Clock?

If this is a 2.4 kernel, you want PPC_RTC.  I'm not sure about 2.6.
The 2.6 kernel I'm using on a G5 doesn't have either RTC or GEN_RTC
set, and I don't know what Enhanced RTC is.

						-Bill