BUG: 2.6.14-rc2 sets the wrong time in NVRAM on PowerMac G5
From: Florin Iucha
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 08:11:04 EST
Hello,
At shutdown, kernel 2.6.14-rc2 saves the wrong value in the hardware
clock, since at next bootup I get 21 August 1987.
I have narrowed the range down to:
2.6.14-rc1 is good
2.6.14-rc1-git1 is bad.
Also, the 2.6.14-rcX does not power off the machine at shutdown.
2.6.13 did work fine.
florin@zeus$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : PPC970FX, altivec supported
clock : 2700.000000MHz
revision : 3.1
processor : 1
cpu : PPC970FX, altivec supported
clock : 2700.000000MHz
revision : 3.1
timebase : 33333333
machine : PowerMac
detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5)
pmac flags : 00000000
pmac-generation : NewWorld
florin@zeus$ dmesg | grep "Linux version"
Linux version 2.6.14-rc2 (root@zeus) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050808
(prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)) #1 SMP Tue Sep 20 17:24:52
CDT 2005
Please let me know if you need more info, or want me to try a patch.
Thank you,
florin
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