[PATCH v4 00/14] ARM: samsung-time: Prepare for multiplatform support

Tomasz Figa t.figa at samsung.com
Fri Apr 5 06:33:12 EDT 2013


Hi Heiko,

On Friday 05 of April 2013 01:15:02 Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 4. April 2013, 18:36:57 schrieb Tomasz Figa:
> > This series is an attempt to make the samsung-time clocksource driver
> > ready
> > for multiplatform kernels. It moves the driver to drivers/clocksource,
> > cleans it up from uses of static platform-specific definitions, simplifies
> > timer interrupt handling and adds Device Tree support.
> > 
> > Only samsung-time driver is reworked to use the master driver at this
> > time,
> > since the PWM driver can be already considered broken at the moment and
> > needs separate series of several patches to fix and clean it up, which
> > I am already working on.
> > 
> > Tested on Universal C210 board with Device Tree. Not tested without
> > Device Tree, since it has been already broken before this series.
> > Compile tested for other related SoCs.
> 
> Looks nice.
> 
> On a non-DT S3C2416 board:
> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>

Thanks for testing.

> And just so I don't search myself silly, am I right in thinking that the
> driver does not use the generic clocksource registration yet and dt machines
> must still use samsung_timer_init at this point?

Yes. Because of the build failures it caused recently I have decided not to 
use it yet. It can be added with a small patch later, though.

Best regards,
-- 
Tomasz Figa
Samsung Poland R&D Center
SW Solution Development, Kernel and System Framework




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