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

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 02/11/2014 05:03 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 04:07:52PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>>
>> This small series adds support for the two new Marvell ARM SoCs:
>> the Armada 375 and Armada 38x.
>>
>
> Please omit these patches entirely, we don't need them.

Roger.

> The new agreement [1] is to add SoC-specific compatible strings and also
> declare the nodes as compatibles with the already supported SoC,
> whenever appropriate.
>
> [..]
>> The A375 SoC timer is modeled matching the A370 timer, while the
>> A38x SoC timer is modeled matching the AXP timer.
>>
>
> So, as per the statement above, the devicetree for Armada 375 and
> Armada 38x would have these timer nodes, respectively:
>
>    timer {
>        compatible = "marvell,armada-375-timer", "marvell,armada-370-timer"
>    }
>
>    timer {
>        compatible = "marvell,armada-380-timer", "marvell,armada-xp-timer"
>    }
>
> (Because the Armada 375 timer uses the provided parent clock, whereas the
> Armada 380 timer uses the fixed 25 MHz clock).
>
> Therefore, we don't need any changes in the clocksource driver for now.
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg306727.html
>


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