This is a patch for 2.2.* kernels for Alphas
With this patch, the kernel reads the correct time from BIOS when
booting from ARC/AlphaBIOS console (detection of starting epoch 1980 as
oposed to 1900 for SRM console
Please test and CC: any replies to rhomberg@ife.ee.ethz.ch
-- _________________________________________________________________ / \ | Alex Rhomberg Tel: +41 1 632 49 18 | | Institut fuer Elektronik Fax: +41 1 632 12 10 | | ETH Zuerich Zentrale: +41 1 632 11 11 | | Gloriastrasse 35 | | 8092 Zuerich email: rhomberg@ife.ee.ethz.ch | \_________________________________________________________________/ --------------96460DC708BC4046A9216886 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="time.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="time.patch"--- linux/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c.old Mon Feb 8 13:34:29 1999 +++ linux/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c Mon Feb 8 13:40:18 1999 @@ -282,8 +282,17 @@ */ year -= 42; #endif - if ((year += 1900) < 1970) - year += 100; + /* + * set start of epoch to 1980 if running under ARC console + * This is indicated by MILO in the system serial number + */ + + if(strncmp((const char *)hwrpb->ssn, "MILO", 4) == 0) + year += 1980; /* assume ARC/AlphaBIOS */ + else + if ((year += 1900) < 1970) + year += 100; /* assume SRM */ + xtime.tv_sec = mktime(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec); xtime.tv_usec = 0;
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