Move designware timer OF glue into drivers/clocksource
Pavel Machek
pavel at denx.de
Tue Jul 10 07:13:25 EDT 2012
Hi!
On Tue 2012-07-10 13:07:36, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > timer0: timer at ffc08000 {
> > - compatible = "socfpga,sp-timer";
> > + compatible = "snps,dw-apb-timer-sp";
>
> apb timer. That rings a bell. Does that have anything to do with
>
> arch/x86/kernel/apb_timer.c ? That's from one of the intel mobile
> chips and might be the very same IP block.
As far as I can tell, drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer.c is already
used on Intel MID platform... What I'm moving is device tree glue,
that is unsuitable for x86 plaforms with classical BIOS. (And AFAICT,
intel MID also uses something different).
> > -obj-y := common.o time.o
> > +obj-y := common.o ../../../drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.o
>
> Urgh! Why can't we just compile it from drivers/clocksource/Makefile
> ?
It will cost me a new config option, but I can do that, yes.
Thanks,
Pavel
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