[PATCH V2 4/4] ARM: OMAP2+: AM43x: Use gptimer as clocksource
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Thu Feb 13 18:19:19 EST 2014
* Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla at ti.com> [140207 02:24]:
> From: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com>
>
> The SyncTimer in AM43x is clocked using the following two sources:
> 1) An inaccuarte 32k clock (CLK_32KHZ) derived from PER DPLL, causing system
> time to go slowly (~10% deviation).
> 2) external 32KHz RTC clock, which may not always be available on board like
> in the case of ePOS EVM
>
> Use gptimer as clocksource instead, as is done in the case of AM335x
> (which does not have a SyncTimer). With this, system time keeping works
> accurately.
Hmm doesn't this also mean that PM for any deeper idle states won't
work properly?
Regards,
Tony
> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla at ti.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c
> index 8e3daa1..5679464a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c
> @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ DT_MACHINE_START(AM43_DT, "Generic AM43 (Flattened Device Tree)")
> .init_late = am43xx_init_late,
> .init_irq = omap_gic_of_init,
> .init_machine = omap_generic_init,
> - .init_time = omap3_sync32k_timer_init,
> + .init_time = omap3_gptimer_timer_init,
> .dt_compat = am43_boards_compat,
> MACHINE_END
> #endif
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c
> index 74044aa..b62de9f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c
> @@ -604,7 +604,8 @@ OMAP_SYS_32K_TIMER_INIT(3_secure, 12, "secure_32k_fck", "ti,timer-secure",
> 2, "timer_sys_ck", NULL);
> #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP3 */
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP3) || defined(CONFIG_SOC_AM33XX)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP3) || defined(CONFIG_SOC_AM33XX) || \
> + defined(CONFIG_SOC_AM43XX)
> OMAP_SYS_GP_TIMER_INIT(3, 2, "timer_sys_ck", NULL,
> 1, "timer_sys_ck", "ti,timer-alwon");
> #endif
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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