Re: [PATCH 6/7] arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp-x13s: switch to uefi rtc offset

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 20.01.2025 3:41 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On many Qualcomm platforms the PMIC RTC control and time registers are
> read-only so that the RTC time can not be updated. Instead an offset
> needs be stored in some machine-specific non-volatile memory, which a
> driver can take into account.
> 
> Switch to using the Qualcomm specific UEFI variable that is used by the
> UEFI firmware (and Windows) to store the RTC offset.
> 
> This specifically means that the RTC time will be synchronised between
> the UEFI firmware setup (or UEFI shell), Windows and Linux.
> 
> Note however that Windows stores the RTC time in local time by default,
> while Linux typically uses UTC (i.e. as on X86).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Konrad