[PATCH v4] clocksource: arch_timer: Allow the device tree to specify uninitialized timer registers

Heiko Stübner heiko at sntech.de
Wed Nov 26 04:55:55 PST 2014


Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2014, 13:49:57 schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
> On 11/26/2014 01:48 PM, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2014, 13:30:58 schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
> >> On 11/26/2014 01:06 PM, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> >>> Hi Daniel,
> >>> 
> >>> Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2014, 12:51:08 schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
> >>>> Hi Doug, Olof,
> >>>> 
> >>>> IIUC, it sounds like this patch is needed from some other patches in
> >>>> arm-soc. Olof was proposing to take this patch through its tree to
> >>>> facilitate the integration.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Olof, is it this patch you were worried about ?
> >>> 
> >>> I think this is one of two patches in question.
> >>> 
> >>> "clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when
> >>> requested"
> >>> [0] would be the second one.
> >>> 
> >>> And the patch for arm-soc that Olof means would be "ARM: dts: rk3288:
> >>> add
> >>> arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured" [1].
> >> 
> >> Ok, so IIUC, "clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers
> >> when requested" should go via arm's tree, right ?
> > 
> > If I'm reading Olof's irc-comments from yesterday correctly, that is right
> > and the 3 patches should go in together:
> > 
> > - "clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers
> > 
> >    when requested" fixes the use of physical timers in general
> > 
> > - "clocksource: arch_timer: Allow the device tree to specify uninitialized
> > 
> >    timer registers" allows this to be set from dt
> > 
> > - "ARM: dts: rk3288: add arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured" enables this
> > on> 
> >    rk3288
> 
> Ok, then I drop them from my tree and will let Olof to handle them.

But maybe you could give them an Ack :-)


Heiko



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