Re: need help to enable ARM AMBA PL031 RTC

From: Ben Dooks
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 06:47:54 EST


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:43:14AM -0700, Hebbar wrote:
>
> I all,
>
> I am working on customized arm versatile board and i am trying to use ARM
> AMBA PL031 RTC.

linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the right place to
discuss this, although I belive it is moderated for non-subscribers.

> i enabled CONFIG_RTC_DRV_PL031=y
>
> But the date never changes or updates.
>
> / # cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/time
> 00:00:00
>
> When i went through the Ref Manual of ARM AMBA PL031 RTC i found that we
> need to enable or set high to RTC START bit (bit 0) in RTC Control Register
> ( 0x0C ).
>
> but in rtc-pl031.c, RTC_START is no where set in RTC CONTROL Register.
>
> I think we need to enable it in rtc_probe func after rtc_device_register
> returns success.
>
> #define RTC_CR_MIE (1 << 0)
>
> __raw_writel(RTC_CR_MIE, ldata->base + RTC_CR);
>
> Kindly Comment.
>
> Regards
> Gururaja
>
>
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