linux/arch
Maciej W. Rozycki 636221b86c MIPS: Malta: Remove RTC Data Mode bootstrap breakage
YAMON requires and enforces the RTC Data Mode (Register B, DM bit) to
binary, that is the bit is set every time the board goes through the
firmware bootstrap sequence.  Likewise its calendar manipulation commands
interpret or set the RTC registers unconditionally as binary, never
actually checking what the value of the DM bit is, under the (correct)
assumption that it has been previously set, to indicate the binary mode.

 A change to Linux a while ago however introduced a platform-specific
tweak that clears that bit and therefore forces the data mode to BCD.
This causes clock corruption and misinterpretation that has to be fixed up
by user-mode tools in system startup scripts as the initial clock is often
incorrect according to the BCD interpretation forced.

 This change removes the hack; a comment included refers to alarm code,
but even if it was broken at one point by requiring the BCD mode, it
should have been trivially corrected and even if not, given how rarely the
alarm feature is used, that was not really a reasonable justification to
break the system clock that is indeed used by virtually everything.  And
either way the alarm code has been since fixed anyway.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4336/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-09-14 17:54:33 +02:00
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alpha alpha: Fix fall-out from disintegrating asm/system.h 2012-08-19 08:41:19 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2012-08-18 16:20:05 -07:00
avr32 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2012-08-03 10:52:41 -07:00
c6x Enable atomic64 ops in C6X 2012-08-17 08:10:12 -07:00
cris ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
h8300 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2012-07-30 11:24:53 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] defconfig: Remove CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES 2012-08-20 13:04:29 -07:00
m32r ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
m68k m68k: select CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 for all m68k CPU types 2012-08-17 10:04:24 +10:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2012-08-03 10:52:41 -07:00
mips MIPS: Malta: Remove RTC Data Mode bootstrap breakage 2012-09-14 17:54:33 +02:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
openrisc Remove useless wrappers of asm-generic/rmap.h 2012-06-28 11:29:26 +02:00
parisc PCI changes for the 3.6 merge window: 2012-07-24 16:17:07 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-08-01 10:26:23 -07:00
s390 s390/compat: fix mmap compat system calls 2012-08-08 07:32:57 -07:00
score new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
sh Merge branches 'sh/urgent' and 'sh/gpiolib' into sh-latest 2012-08-09 13:21:13 +09:00
sparc sparc64: Be less verbose during vmemmap population. 2012-08-15 00:37:29 -07:00
tile memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2012-08-01 16:45:02 -07:00
unicore32 PCI changes for the 3.6 merge window: 2012-07-24 16:17:07 -07:00
x86 mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd 2012-08-21 16:45:02 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: select generic atomic64_t support 2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
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Kconfig ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00