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Pieter ViljoenandClaude Opus 5.5 ad2df09dc5 rak4631: use a fitted RAK12002 RTC, and keep its backup switchover enabled
The RAK4631 overlay declared no zephcore,rtc-i2c candidate, so a fitted
RAK12002 (an RV3028 at 0x52) was never probed or written, and every
power cut started the node at 1970. Declaring it is not enough: the
RV3028 ships with backup switchover disabled (EEPROM 37h BSM = 00), so a
power cut still loses the time.

The overlay now declares the RV3028 with the zero-mask rtc-i2c.dtsi uses
for it, and a new optional rv3028-eeprom-config descriptor property
holds (register, mask, value) triplets for its EEPROM configuration
registers 35h-37h. The RAK4631 sets direct switchover with the trickle
charger on (TCE, BSM = 01, TCR 3 kOhm), as the RV-3028-C7 Application
Manual (Rev. 1.4) 7.3 prescribes for a capacitor backup, FEDE set as
3.15.6 says it always should be, and CLKOUT off. The configuration has
to live in EEPROM: the chip reloads its configuration RAM from EEPROM at
power-on and every midnight (4.6.2).

The store runs only when a read identified the chip (RTC_FOUND, not an
adoption on a failed second read) and a BSF-checked time read just
before it showed no switchover. It follows 3.15.6 (BSM 00 or 10 for any
EEPROM access): EERD held, switchover off in RAM, each configured byte
compared against the EEPROM with a single-byte read and written only if
it differs, and a closing Refresh that restores the stored switchover
mode, read back on every boot. 36h, the factory trim, is never written.
Switchover is turned back on only once EEbusy reads 0; otherwise it
stays off until a retry or the daily refresh. A failed store sets the
config in RAM (also only once EEbusy reads 0). A failed or skipped store
is retried every 10 minutes, at most 3 times per boot, each retry
identifying the chip again first.

A switchover disables the chip's I2C mid-transfer (4.2), so at a node
with rv3028-eeprom-config the time is read at boot and written on each
sync with BSF cleared before and checked after. A read that saw a
switchover gives no time. A write sets year 00h first and the real year
last, so a power loss cutting it between its first and last byte leaves
year 2000 and the next boot takes no time from it, and a write not
confirmed is repeated every 5 s, up to 12 times, with the time run on.

All of the RV3028 code is compiled only when some node carries
rv3028-eeprom-config, so other boards, thinknode_m1 among them, build
the same RTC object as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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