Infix needs to handle platforms with broken RTC better. "Broken" in this case means a non-battery backed RTC that at power-on start up with a completely random time in the future, which leads to skipping back in time when the NTP client synchronizes the system clock.
- On platforms where cold start can be detected, and have this problem, we should clear the RTC
- On platforms where cold start cannot be detected, we should disable the RTC
- Disable the driver, or
- Disable the node in the device tree
- When the system starts, detecting a missing
/dev/rtc (and others) should restore from a file instead
- Periodically (every 11 mins, like the kernel) save system time to a file
The latter two can be handled by extending the RTC plugin in Finit, see finit-project/finit#418
Infix needs to handle platforms with broken RTC better. "Broken" in this case means a non-battery backed RTC that at power-on start up with a completely random time in the future, which leads to skipping back in time when the NTP client synchronizes the system clock.
/dev/rtc(and others) should restore from a file insteadThe latter two can be handled by extending the RTC plugin in Finit, see finit-project/finit#418