[PATCH v16 00/15] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer
Daniel Lezcano
daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
Thu Nov 17 01:47:29 PST 2016
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:48:53PM +0800, fu.wei at linaro.org wrote:
> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei at linaro.org>
>
> This patchset:
> (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer:
> 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file;
> 2. Add a new enum for spi type;
> 3. Improve printk relevant code.
> 4. rename some enums and defines, and some cleanups.
> 5. separate out arch_timer_uses_ppi init code and fix a potential bug
> 6. Refactor arch_timer_detect_rate to keep dt code only in *_of_init
> 7. Refactor arch_timer_needs_probing, and call it only if acpi disabled.
> 8. Introduce some new structs and refactor the timer init code
>
> (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/arm64/acpi_gtdt.c
> Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer,
> memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer.
> This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers,
> and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them.
>
> (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer
>
> (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timer, also refactor
> original memory-mapped timer dt support for reusing some common
> code.
>
> This patchset has been tested on the following platforms with ACPI enabled:
> (1)ARM Foundation v8 model
>
> Changelog:
> v16: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/
> Fix patchset problem about static enum ppi_nr of 01/13 in v15.
> Refactor arch_timer_detect_rate.
> Refactor arch_timer_needs_probing.
Most of the patches are touching drivers/clocksource and others acpi.
Through which tree this patchset should go ?
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