[PATCH 1/3] arm64: arch_timer: Add device tree binding for hisilicon-161x01 erratum

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Oct 24 04:16:08 PDT 2016


On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:21:10AM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> +- hisilicon,erratum-161x01 : A boolean property. Indicates the presence of
> +  QorIQ erratum 161201, which says that reading the counter is
> +  unreliable unless the small range of value is returned by back-to-back reads.
> +  This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit
> +  counter read.

Is "161x01" the *exact* erratum number, or is the 'x' a wildcard? Please
use the *exact* erratum number, even if that means we have to list
several.

Is "161x01" an *erratum* number, or the *part* number of affected
devices?

Thanks,
Mark.



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