Re: [PATCHv3 4/5] rtc: s3c: Add support for RTC of Exynos3250 SoC

From: Daniel Drake
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 12:49:45 EST


On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> NOTE: I don't think that the builtin RTC is terribly important for any
> exynos-based Chromebooks that I'm aware of. We rely on the RTC that's
> part of the Maxim PMIC itself and pretty much ignore the one built-in
> to the exynos. I think there are some cases it was used (as a
> fallback wakeup source in certain test scripts), but nothing very
> important.

That's not true for all hardware though, at least the board I'm
working on now has the SoC RTC as battery-backed and the PMIC one with
no battery. So in this case at least, the interesting RTC is the SoC
one.

Daniel
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