[GIT PULL 1/3] ARM: soc: exynos: Drivers for v4.9

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Sep 19 08:02:40 PDT 2016


On Sunday, September 18, 2016 6:39:46 PM CEST Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Samsung drivers/soc update for v4.9:
> 1. Allow compile testing of exynos-mct clocksource driver on ARM64.
> 2. Document Exynos5433 PMU compatible (already used by clkout driver and more
>    will be coming soon).

Pulled into next/drivers, thanks

Just for my understanding: why do we need the exynos-mct driver on ARM64
but not the delay-timer portion of it?

Is there an advantage in using MCT over the architected timer on these
chips? If so, should we also have a way to use it as the delay timer?

	Arnd




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