Kernel driver x1205 =================== Supported chips: * Xicor X1205 RTC Prefix: 'x1205' Addresses scanned: none Datasheet: http://www.intersil.com/cda/deviceinfo/0,1477,X1205,00.html Authors: Karen Spearel , Alessandro Zummo Description ----------- This module aims to provide complete access to the Xicor X1205 RTC. Recently Xicor has merged with Intersil, but the chip is still sold under the Xicor brand. This chip is located at address 0x6f and uses a 2-byte register addressing. Two bytes need to be written to read a single register, while most other chips just require one and take the second one as the data to be written. To prevent corrupting unknown chips, the user must explicitely set the probe parameter. example: modprobe x1205 probe=0,0x6f The module supports one more option, hctosys, which is used to set the software clock from the x1205. On systems where the x1205 is the only hardware rtc, this parameter could be used to achieve a correct date/time earlier in the system boot sequence. example: modprobe x1205 probe=0,0x6f hctosys=1