[PATCH 0/2] Marvell Armada 375 and 38x timer support

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
Tue Feb 11 08:03:57 EST 2014


On 02/10/2014 08:07 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> This small series adds support for the two new Marvell ARM SoCs:
> the Armada 375 and Armada 38x.
>
> These new SoCs are based on Cortex-A9 CPU cores, and share a
> number of peripherals with their predecessors in the mach-mvebu
> family. The core support (arch/arm/mach-mvebu) for these SOCs have just
> been posted, and we're aiming at having this merged for 3.15.
>
> The A375 SoC timer is modeled matching the A370 timer, while the
> A38x SoC timer is modeled matching the AXP timer. However, we'd like
> to keep the compatible strings as SoC-specific.
>
> In the past, we've had trouble chosing a common compatible string, resulting
> in the introduction of per-SoC compatibles. Such compatible-string change
> of course implies breaking backards compatibility, and was only possible
> after agreeing that the old compatible wasn't used in production.
>
> So, in order to avoid such problems, we think it's better to keep them
> separate.
>
> Gregory CLEMENT (2):
>    clocksource: armada-370-xp: Add support for Armada 375
>    clocksource: armada-370-xp: Add support for Armada 38x
>
>   .../bindings/timer/marvell,armada-370-xp-timer.txt | 13 ++++++++----
>   drivers/clocksource/time-armada-370-xp.c           | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>   2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Applied to my tree for 3.15.

Thanks !

  -- Daniel


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