Re: [PATCH v8 04/11] rtc: sun6i: Add support for linear day storage

["Jernej Škrabec" <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>]

Hi Andre!

Dne petek, 23. julij 2021 ob 17:38:31 CEST je Andre Przywara napisal(a):
> Newer versions of the Allwinner RTC, as for instance found in the H616
> SoC, no longer store a broken-down day/month/year representation in the
> RTC_DAY_REG, but just a linear day number.
> The user manual does not give any indication about the expected epoch
> time of this day count, but the BSP kernel uses the UNIX epoch, which
> allows easy support due to existing conversion functions in the kernel.
> 
> Allow tagging a compatible string with a flag, and use that to mark
> those new RTCs. Then convert between a UNIX day number (converted into
> seconds) and the broken-down day representation using mktime64() and
> time64_to_tm() in the set_time/get_time functions.
> 
> That enables support for the RTC in those new chips.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>

Best regards,
Jernej