[PATCH 5/5] ARM: OMAP3: Update clocksource timer selection

Bedia, Vaibhav vaibhav.bedia at ti.com
Fri Feb 1 04:31:04 EST 2013


On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 14:55:31, Hunter, Jon wrote:
[...]
> > 
> > I don't see this as being DT specific. It is more of a policy change to
> > ensure a wake-up domain timer is used for clocksource when we are using
> > gptimers for both clocksource and clockevents. It was your patch for
> > AM335x that made me see the need for this, if that makes sense. May be I
> > should have referenced that in the changelog.
> 
> Sorry to be clear, I don't see the policy change as DT specific.
> 
> In answer to your question, yes clkev_nr and clksrc_nr are changed so
> the policy it is consistent regardless of whether you use DT or not. In
> other words, an OMAP3 board using a gptimer for clocksource  (such as
> cm-t3517) and does not use DT, would work the same as AM335x with DT.
> 

Ok. Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,
Vaibhav



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