[PATCH v15 06/12] OMAP: dmtimer: switch-over to platform device driver

[Mohammed, Afzal]

Hi Tony,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:12:53, DebBarma, Tarun Kanti wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> > * Tarun Kanti DebBarma <tarun.kanti at ti.com> [110908 13:36]:
> >> removed from timer code. New set of timers present on
> >> OMAP4 are now supported.
> > Also, as we don't need the support for different register offsets for 
> > the first two omap4 timers, please rather implement support for the 
> > new timers and the timeouts directly in plat-omap/dmtimer.c.
> >
> > That way we can still keep the minimal timer support simple for 
> > clocksource and clockevent. Of course this means that we'll be only 
> > supporting the first two timers as system timers on omap4, but that's 
> > fine.
> Ok, I can make the change!
> But, do we have to keep OMAP5 in mind right now where even timers[1,2] require addition of offsets?

We need clocksource & clockevent to be able to work with
timers requiring addition of offsets. Without this AM335X,
TI816X and TI814X SoC's will not boot.

Regards
Afzal