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[Brad Figg <brad.figg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves
the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the
results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-
utopic' to 'verification-done-utopic'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will
be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1441291

Title:
  support EFI rtc on arm64

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux-lts-utopic package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  In Progress
Status in linux-lts-utopic source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux-lts-utopic source package in Utopic:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  ARM64 EFI platforms have no real time clock support. This can leave a system with a very out-of-date system clock. It can be somewhat mitigated by using NTP, but that still leaves issues in early boot (inaccurate last mount times, etc).

  [Test Case]
  if dmesg | grep -q 'rtc-efi: setting system clock'; then
    PASS
  else
    FAIL
  fi

  [Regression Risk]
  This enables a new driver only on ARM64, so the risk should be low to other platforms. The upstream patches do refactor the rtc-efi driver but, that driver was previously only compilable on ia64, which isn't supported by Ubuntu.

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