[PATCH] RTC framework driver for CMOS RTCs

This is an "RTC framework" driver for the "CMOS" RTCs which are standard on
PCs and some other platforms.  That's MC146818 compatible silicon.
Advantages of this vs.  drivers/char/rtc.c (use one _or_ the other, only
one will be able to claim the RTC irq) include:

 - This leverages both the new RTC framework and the driver model; both
   PNPACPI and platform device modes are supported.  (A separate patch
   creates a platform device on PCs where PNPACPI isn't configured.)

 - It supports common extensions like longer alarms.  (A separate patch
   exports that information from ACPI through platform_data.)

 - Likewise, system wakeup events use "real driver model support", with
   policy control via sysfs "wakeup" attributes and and using normal rtc
   ioctls to manage wakeup.  (Patch in the works.  The ACPI hooks are
   known; /proc/acpi/alarm can vanish.  Making it work with EFI will
   be a minor challenge to someone with e.g. a MiniMac.)

It's not yet been tested on non-x86 systems, without ACPI, or with HPET.
And the RTC framework will surely have teething pains on "mainstream"
PC-based systems (though must embedded Linux systems use it heavily), not
limited to sorting out the "/dev/rtc0" issue (udev easily tweaked).  Also,
the ALSA rtctimer code doesn't use the new RTC API.

Otherwise, this should be a no-known-regressions replacement for the old
drivers/char/rtc.c driver, and should help the non-embedded distros (and
the new timekeeping code) start to switch to the framework.

Note also that any systems using "rtc-m48t86" are candidates to switch over
to this more functional driver; the platform data is different, and the way
bytes are read is different, but otherwise those chips should be compatible.

[akpm@osdl.org: sparc32 fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 fix]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mc146818rtc.h b/include/linux/mc146818rtc.h
index 432b2fa24929..bdc01127dced 100644
--- a/include/linux/mc146818rtc.h
+++ b/include/linux/mc146818rtc.h
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>             /* spinlock_t */
 extern spinlock_t rtc_lock;             /* serialize CMOS RAM access */
+
+/* Some RTCs extend the mc146818 register set to support alarms of more
+ * than 24 hours in the future; or dates that include a century code.
+ * This platform_data structure can pass this information to the driver.
+ */
+struct cmos_rtc_board_info {
+        u8      rtc_day_alarm;          /* zero, or register index */
+        u8      rtc_mon_alarm;          /* zero, or register index */
+        u8      rtc_century;            /* zero, or register index */
+};
 #endif
 
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