[PATCH] Versatile Express: add support for local timers on CA9X4 daughterboard

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Jul 9 09:11:17 EDT 2010


> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:22:48PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > That's a lot tidier, how about something like this?:
> 
> Yea.

Great - submitted as 6218/1 superseding the old patch.
 
> > My only question is; what is the commented-out timer code for in
> > ct-ca9x4.c? It would be nice to get rid of it if it's not useful.
> 
> I tried to use the core tile timers, but I couldn't get them to work
> properly (I don't remember why.)  I guess it would be preferable to
> use the core tile timers as they probably have a faster latency than
> the baseboard ones.  Hence I left the code there for when I can
> investigate a little more.

Ah, ok, I'll leave that alone then.

Thanks,

Will






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