[RFC/PATCH 03/11] arm: omap2: timer: remove __omap_gptimer_init()

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Oct 5 09:02:25 PDT 2015


* Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> [151005 08:29]:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:01:45AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> [150929 13:48]:
> > > since now we can reuse __omap_sync32k_timer_init()
> > > for OMAP3-like devices, we can safely remove
> > > __omap_gptimer_init().
> > 
> > There are tons of boards out there that need to use the
> > high frequency ocillator source with gptimer because of the
> > beagleboard B4 and earlier issue #7. So we need to provide
> > both options for the boards. Using the high frequency
> > oscillator source blocks deeper idle states in hardware
> > so those devices are usable.
> 
> have a closer look, that hasn't changed

Oh right, you added the argument in the previous patch.
Maybe update the description a bit to make that clear?
I understood that we can only use the sync32k source now..

The __omap_sync32k_timer_init should not be called
"sync32k" as that's TRM name for the always-on counter :)

Regards,

Tony




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