Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: s32g: force S32G RTC as rtc0

[Fabio Estevam]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM Andrei Botila
<andrei.botila@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Regarding the I2C RTC(PCA85073A) commands like hwclock or rtcwake use by
> default /dev/rtc, /dev/rtc0 so they will try to use PCA and fail.

These commands should not fail.

date -s "2026-03-10 11:00:00"
hwclock -w

Power-cycle the board. Does the "date" command retain the correct time?

> Also from what I could find online PCA85073A is also not battery-backed.

I haven't checked, but this looks strange. How will the board retain
the time then, after a power cycle?