[RFC RESEND 1/4] arm/dts: OMAP: Add timer nodes
Paul Walmsley
paul at pwsan.com
Sat Jul 14 02:56:16 EDT 2012
Hi
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Rob Herring wrote:
> I'm not sure this is really a good use of aliases. UARTs use aliases
> because it is important that the UART number to tty number is known and
> fixed. IIUC, as an example you are picking timer1 because it has
> properties X, Y and Z. If so, then you should describe those h/w
> properties within the timer nodes so you can pick which timer to use
> based on it's h/w properties.
Some GPTIMER blocks have input and output signals that can be routed to
external package balls. So it's possible that some application may need
to request a specific timer ID, since that timer would be connected to a
specific off-chip device.
- Paul
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