MAXRTC(4)

💖 MAXRTC(4) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the maxrtc page — that's section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, mwah 💅. It's all about a lil real-time clock chip and honestly? iconic.

maxrtc* at iic?

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✨ NAME ✨

maxrtc — the Maxim DS1307/DS1339 real-time clock, aka your tiny timekeeping bestie 🕰️💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

maxrtc* at iic?

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the maxrtc driver is the whole vibe for the Maxim DS1307 and DS1339 real-time clock chips — and these babies literally give you a low-power, full binary-coded decimal (BCD) clock/calendar. yes, BCD, she's fancy 💅✨

and as if that wasn't enough — the DS1307 also comes with 56 bytes of NV SRAM. 56! bytes! of non-volatile memory! she's giving main character energy fr fr 🎀👑

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• iic(4)
• intro(4)

go read those too, iykyk 🫶

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the maxrtc driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.0 — a classic, an original, we stan 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the maxrtc driver was written by Marcus Glocker <mglocker@openbsd.org> — thank you king, we appreciate you 🙏💜

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💀✨ this lil beauty is from the Debian build, dated October 25, 2022, filed under MAXRTC(4) in the Kernel Interfaces Manual — mwah, go keep that clock ticking 🕰️💖🎀