[PATCH 3/9] ARM: SPMP8000: Add clk support

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Mon Oct 17 08:15:48 EDT 2011


On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 04:16:45PM +0200, Zoltan Devai wrote:
> 2011/10/13 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:

> > I find the use of 'scu' for something which isn't the SMP Coherence Unit
> > rather confusing - and I suspect you will too if/when spmp8000 has SMP
> > support.

> Well, Sunplus decided to name these devices 'SCU', which are a collection
> of reset, clock, debug, pinmux and gpio stuff.
> The datasheet doesn't even tell what SCU stands for, but I'd prefer to keep
> the naming to be in sync with the documentation.

System Control Unit.  It's a fairly common name to use for the core
system glue logic.



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