From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5GfY-0004B0-6g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:08:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA5E81C0CA for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D06A1C0AD for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.199] (68-118-247-159.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [68.118.247.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: nixphoeni) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 981021B4117 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:54:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D946B97.4080701@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:55:03 -0400 From: Joe Sapp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101222 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Getting network time early in boot References: <4D92902B.5000300@gentoo.org> <20110330085958.11A65EDFFD0@gemini.denx.de> In-Reply-To: <20110330085958.11A65EDFFD0@gemini.denx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20110331075503204 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 78f5cdce43fcdef2e35d93a51095800e On 03/30/2011 04:59 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > 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. It does use U-Boot, so maybe a combination of this and swclock (from sys-apps/openrc) is the most reliable way to set the time for my application. Thanks all for the ideas. Joe