Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

[Andrew Morton]

Roger Leigh <rleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini;
>  Freescale 7447A):
> 
>  $ date && touch f && ls -l f && rm -f f && date
>  Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23
>  Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006
> 
>  Notice the timestamp is 3 minutes in the future compared with the
>  system time.  "make" is not a very happy bunny running on this kernel
>  due to every touched file being 3 minutes in the future.

I've had several spates of time-going-nuts on ppc64.  The most recent one
was because someone went and fiddled with Kconfig naming and I lost the RTC
driver.

What does `grep RTC .config' say?
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