[RFC 02/17] ARM: call clk_of_init from time_init
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Thu Aug 22 13:28:10 EDT 2013
On Thursday 22 August 2013, Mike Turquette wrote:
> Some timers need to know their clock rate for the timer setup. This
> could be hard-coded (e.g. for some timer driven from a fixed 32Khz
> source) but it could also be from a clock capable of different rates
> that needs to be calculated.
>
> I remember discussing the early clock init stuff for OMAP and there was
> an idea to not rely on the clock framework for timer init and just do
> some raw reads and compute the clock rate that way. Using the framework
> would be better of course.
>
Just to be clear: I think we should initialize all clocks before timers,
just not any earlier like Tegra does.
Arnd
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