From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org, Joe Sapp <nixphoeni@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Getting network time early in boot
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:59:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110330085958.11A65EDFFD0@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D92902B.5000300@gentoo.org>
Dear Joe Sapp,
In message <4D92902B.5000300@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> I've got a board with no RTC so there are some problems during boot.
> Currently there's a hack in the udev init script to get the time from the
> network (via ntp or rdate), but I'm wondering if somebody else has solved
> this in a better way. Any ideas?
If your board uses U-Boot as boot loader, you can enable SNTP support
in U-Boot and get and set the time already there, before you even boot
into Linux.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 2:06 [gentoo-embedded] Getting network time early in boot Joe Sapp
2011-03-30 4:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-03-30 13:59 ` Ed W
2011-03-30 14:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-03-30 8:59 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2011-03-31 11:55 ` Joe Sapp
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