[PATCH V2 0/7] support the cpts found on am335x devices
Richard Cochran
richardcochran at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 14:27:15 EDT 2012
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:11:29PM +0000, N, Mugunthan V wrote:
>
> Yes, I do agree that driver handles it. As Half roll over and Full roll
> over events are not handled in the driver, I am just curious how will
> the misaligned TS would be handled and also in cpts set time, the Lower
> 32 bit time is written to CPTS counter
#include <linux/clocksource.h>
> Since we poll for the 32bit over flow for every HZ * 8 cycle, won't
> there be a system overhead. If the CPTS ref clock is changed according
> to the ptp freq adjust api, how will the timecounter take care of change
> in frequency
There is nothing to do here. What are you asking?
> The current driver which is in vanilla kernel doesn't use extended slave
> address which are conflict between TI814x CPSW IP version and AM335x CPSW
> IP version. I have just posted my version of CPTS implementation. May be
> we can work together make the driver compatible with both CPSW versions
Okay.
> Since CPSW is a 3port Switch we should not fix time stamping will be enabled
> only for slave 0 or passing slave number through DT. Its better if we
> can configure both the slaves. This can be tested with EVM-sk which has
> both the slave ports pinned out.
I hope that you meant, "better if we can configure _either_ slave."
Considering how SO_TIMESTAMPING works, you can't use both at once.
Thanks,
Richard
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