[PATCH v5 2/3] clocksource: keystone: add bindings for keystone timer

Ivan Khoronzhuk ivan.khoronzhuk at ti.com
Thu Feb 6 09:09:05 EST 2014


On 02/06/2014 01:36 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk at ti.com> wrote:
>> On 02/05/2014 07:41 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk at ti.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 02/05/2014 04:39 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk at ti.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> This patch provides bindings for the 64-bit timer in the KeyStone
>>>>>> architecture devices. The timer can be configured as a general-purpose
>>>>>> 64-bit
>>>>>> timer, dual general-purpose 32-bit timers. When configured as dual
>>>>>> 32-bit
>>>>>> timers, each half can operate in conjunction (chain mode) or
>>>>>> independently
>>>>>> (unchained mode) of each other.
>>>>> This is software configurable or h/w design time configurations?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>>>
>>>> This is h/w design time configurations
>>> Then it seems like the binding should provide for describing those
>>> differences either with a property or different compatible strings.
>>>
>>> Rob
>> Oh..sorry, seems I didn't catch, this is configurable by software.
>> These configurations are like modes in which timer can work
>> and they are not different hardware IPs. It depends on driver in
>> which mode it should work.
> In that case,
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>

Thanks

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Regards,
Ivan Khoronzhuk




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