Re: [RFC PATCH] Adding RTC device (work in progress)

[jbranso]

November 7, 2024 at 7:25 PM, "Zhaoming Luo" <zhaoming1357@qq.com 
mailto:zhaoming1357@qq.com?to=%22Zhaoming%20Luo%22%20%3Czhaoming1357%40qq.com%3E
 > wrote:



> 
> On 11/7/24 9:42 PM, Sergey Bugaev wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Was the explanation clear enough / do you have follow-up questions?
> > 
> Yeah it's clear and I haven't got any questions.
> 
> > 
> > Have you made any progress on the RTC server?
> > 
> I've applied the suggestions from you and Samuel. The rest of the stuff is 
> mainly about filling codes into the server-side functions; it may require 
> some time as I haven't had any experience of writing drivers. I'm reading the 
> document suggested by Samuel to learn to do it. I just got my T60 and I would 
> prefer developing the driver on the Hurd running on real hardware, so the 
> time required may be longer (some time is required to set up the Hurd on the 
> computer). Should I develop in qemu?
 
It seems to me that most Hurd developers develop the Hurd in qemu.  My two 
cents.

I'm not a developer, but I perfer to use the Hurd in real hardware.

> I will post a RTC patch series soon (I now have an account on another mail 
> server which allows me to do it :)).
> 
> -- Zhaoming Luo
>