Bug#1057634: /sbin/hwclock: unrecognized option '--rtc=/dev/rtc0'

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Thorsten Glaser, le mer. 06 déc. 2023 12:16:27 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> >I have zero knowledge about hurd, but it looks like[1] hwclock is built
> >with CMOS support on hurd.  So maybe it could work?
> 
> Maybe it just needs a different config?
> 
> >Given this I'd imagine nobody has ever used the hwclock initscripts
> >on hurd before, and maybe they shouldn't exist there? I'd hope hurd
> >wouldn't rely on userspace to do direct hardware access to set the
> >time.
> 
> AIUI Hurd is a microkernel so everything is done in userspace?

Yes, we'd rather set a translator on /dev/rtc, that does the ISA access
for everybody, instead of hwclock doing it (and possibly stepping on top
of another hwclock call). Contribution welcome ;)

Samuel