[PATCH 1/3] ARM: OMAP2+: 32k-counter: Use hwmod lookup to check presence of 32k timer

Hiremath, Vaibhav hvaibhav at ti.com
Wed Apr 4 06:39:54 EDT 2012


On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 14:34:09, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav at ti.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 00:05:38, Hilman, Kevin wrote:
> >> "Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> writes:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > I don't personally like to add features which hardly anybody use and
> >> > fundamentally broken with full kernel.
> >>
> >> Let's keep sane defaults, but not make it unreasonable to tweak eaither.
> >>
> >> I suggest what has already been mentioned.
> >>
> >> Register both timers, but have the sync timer have a higher rating.  On
> >> AMxxx where there is no sync timer, GPtimer will be used.
> >>
> >
> > This is another good option, I can change the rating of both the timers.
> > With below description and given understanding/discussion/usability of both
> > the timers, we can reverse the rating,
> >
> Btw, if we are going with this path, then there won't any need of commandline
> option since clock-source can be switched from user space as well.
> 

Yes, both the options will be open now and its upto user how he want to 
choose it (either bootargs or sysfs).

Thanks,
Vaibhav



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