diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index 7a3c3f791ade2aaac30bbadc0994da40ea12e80a..b4ed362c457acd75ea80fc490f0fd4518eb7bf46 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -1048,6 +1048,48 @@ void __init time_init(void)
 	set_dec(tb_ticks_per_jiffy);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RTC_CLASS
+static int set_rtc_class_time(struct rtc_time *tm)
+{
+	int err;
+	struct class_device *class_dev =
+		rtc_class_open(CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE);
+
+	if (class_dev == NULL)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	err = rtc_set_time(class_dev, tm);
+
+	rtc_class_close(class_dev);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void get_rtc_class_time(struct rtc_time *tm)
+{
+	int err;
+	struct class_device *class_dev =
+		rtc_class_open(CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE);
+
+	if (class_dev == NULL)
+		return;
+
+	err = rtc_read_time(class_dev, tm);
+
+	rtc_class_close(class_dev);
+
+	return;
+}
+
+int __init rtc_class_hookup(void)
+{
+	ppc_md.get_rtc_time = get_rtc_class_time;
+	ppc_md.set_rtc_time = set_rtc_class_time;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_RTC_CLASS */
+
 
 #define FEBRUARY	2
 #define	STARTOFTIME	1970
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/time.h b/include/asm-powerpc/time.h
index 5785ac4737b5ee7575837b2d8e8d9c05b752f8cd..b051d4c88c3b46a19b40ba11d2e951010be502d6 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/time.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/time.h
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ extern void generic_calibrate_decr(void);
 extern void wakeup_decrementer(void);
 extern void snapshot_timebase(void);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RTC_CLASS
+extern int __init rtc_class_hookup(void);
+#endif
+
 /* Some sane defaults: 125 MHz timebase, 1GHz processor */
 extern unsigned long ppc_proc_freq;
 #define DEFAULT_PROC_FREQ	(DEFAULT_TB_FREQ * 8)
@@ -234,4 +238,4 @@ extern void snapshot_timebases(void);
 #endif
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-#endif /* __PPC64_TIME_H */
+#endif /* __POWERPC_TIME_H */