[PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: imx7d: add arch timer

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Sun Dec 20 22:44:14 PST 2015


On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:23:59PM -0600, Zhi Li wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
> > On 2015-12-10 15:12, Frank.Li at freescale.com wrote:
> >> From: Frank Li <Frank.Li at freescale.com>
> >>
> >> add cortex a7 arch timer.
> >> uboot v2016.01-rc2 supported psci basic support.
> >> smp can be supported by psci
> >
> > This sounds a bit overly simplified log message. I am not very into this
> > PSCI topic, is this a prerequisit for the ARM arch timers? Maybe you
> > could elaborate that a bit more.
> 
> No.
> But according to previous discussion. Shawn want us to use psci to enable
> second core.  We need enable arch timer if second core enabled.

I guess you can make the commit log a bit better by commenting
the relationship between the arch timer and secondary core.

Shawn



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