Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:42:51 +0100 | From | Alexandre Belloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rtc: Add an option to invalidate dates in 2038 |
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On 21/02/2016 at 00:17:02 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote : > All the failures seem quite random to me but the reports I get are not > that precise. > > I know it happens with PCF8523 and that can be true because the > datasheet says the date is undefined at reset. The handling of the OS > bit (that bit indicates the date is probably wrong) has to be fixed and > I will take care of that. > > If that is the only RTC with that particular issue, we clearly don't > need my workaround. But As I say, I can ask but I don't have a clear > list of the affected system and their RTC. >
I add that it also seem to affect the Allwinner A20 RTC. I'm not sure how much we can trust the datasheet but it claims the reset value is 0 and I don't think there is a way to know whether the date is correct or not.
-- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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