[PATCH v2 3/3] ARM: vf610: Add ARM Global Timer clocksource option

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Thu Sep 25 18:45:14 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:20:10PM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
> Add the ARM Global Timer as clocksource/scheduler clock option and
> use it as default scheduler clock. This leaves the PIT timer for
> other users e.g. the secondary Cortex-M4 core. Also, the Global Timer
> has double the precission (running at pheripheral clock compared to
> IPG clock) and a 64-bit incrementing counter register. We still keep
> the PIT timer as an secondary option in case the ARM Global Timer is
> not available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>

Applied, thanks.



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