[PATCH] ARM: OMAP5/DRA7: realtime_counter: Configure CNTFRQ register

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Wednesday 18 September 2013 09:44 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 09/18/2013 08:31 AM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Wednesday 18 September 2013 07:23 AM, Sricharan R wrote:
> [...]
> 						4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>>>  
>>>  	/*
>>> +	 * Configure the CNTFRQ register for the secondary cpu's which
>>> +	 * indicates the frequency of the cpu local timers.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	if (soc_is_omap54xx() || soc_is_dra7xx())
>> CNTFREQ programming was not supported on OMAP5 ES1.0 and that was one
>> of the reason this parameter came into picture. So you need to skip
>> the ES1.0 here. 
>>
> Even though ES1.0 is present in id.c, we have 0 support for ES1.0.
> 
> ES1.0 was more or less a test chip, no production devices were
> manufactured with it, no public boards (including uevms) are available
> to purchase with ES1.0. Further, inside TI, all ES1.0 samples and
> boards have been scrapped and replaced with ES2.0 platforms.
> 
> In short, no users and dead code in kernel tree. I dont see why we
> cant just cleanup OMAP5 ES1.0 entirely from kernel tree?
> 
Yes...There is no reason to keep broken ES1.0 support. Patch please ;-)

Regards,
Santosh