[PATCH v2 4/7] rtc: sun6i: Expose the 32kHz oscillator

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon Jan 23 13:00:52 PST 2017


On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:41:49AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The RTC controls the input source of the main 32kHz oscillator in the
> system, feeding it to the clock unit too.
> 
> By default, this is using an internal, very inaccurate (+/- 30%)
> oscillator with a divider to make it roughly around 32kHz. This is however
> quite impractical for the RTC, since our time will not be tracked properly.
> 
> Since this oscillator is an input of the main clock unit, and since that
> clock unit will be probed using CLK_OF_DECLARE, we have to use it as well,
> leading to a two stage probe: one to enable the clock, the other one to
> enable the RTC.
> 
> There is also a slight change in the binding that is required (and should
> have been from the beginning), since we'll need a phandle to the external
> oscillator used on that board. We support the old binding by not allowing
> to switch to the external oscillator and only using the internal one (which
> was the previous behaviour) in the case where we're missing that phandle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/sun6i-rtc.txt |  10 +-

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>

>  drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c                             | 146 +++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)



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