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

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Sep 15 13:05:48 EDT 2011


* Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [110915 09:24]:
> * Mohammed, Afzal <afzal at ti.com> [110915 01:13]:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> OK. Then how about let's do the following things:
> 
> 1. Modify the inline access functions to take the PEND and others
>    if needed registers as a parameter
> 
> 2. Modify mach-omap2/timer.c to initialize the PEND and others
>    in the SoC specific timer_init function

Also, let's do these changes first then rebase the dmtimer
series on those changes as it simplifies the dmtimer series
a bit.

Regards,

Tony



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