[PATCH v4 6/7] ARM: davinci: convert to common clock framework

David Lechner david at lechnology.com
Thu Jan 4 13:22:25 PST 2018


On 01/04/2018 01:26 PM, Adam Ford wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:50 AM, David Lechner <david at lechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/4/18 6:39 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday 01 January 2018 05:09 AM, David Lechner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This converts all of arch/arm/mach-davinci to the common clock framework.
>>>> The clock drivers from clock.c and psc.c have been moved to drivers/clk,
>>>> so these files are removed.
>>>>
>>>> There is one subtle change in the clock trees. AUX, BPDIV and OSCDIV
>>>> clocks now have "ref_clk" as a parent instead of the PLL clock. These
>>>> clocks are part of the PLL's MMIO block, but they bypass the PLL and
>>>> therefore it makes more sense to have "ref_clk" as their parent since
>>>> "ref_clk" is the input clock of the PLL.
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_DAVINCI_RESET_CLOCKS is removed since the common clock frameworks
>>>> takes care of disabling unused clocks.
>>>>
>>>> Known issue: This breaks CPU frequency scaling on da850.
>>>
>>>
>>> This functionality needs to be restored as part of this series since we
>>> cannot commit anything with regressions.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion on how to accomplish this? I don't have a board for
>> testing, so I don't have a way of knowing if my changes will work or not.
> 
> I work for Logic PD who makes the original da850-evm.  I can help if
> you want to send me patches.  It would be better if you had a git repo
> setup where I could just clone the repo and tests.
> 
> Having a larger collection of smaller the patches would also give me
> the ability to bisect down to help determine what actually breaks the
> da850-evm vs a few large patches.
> 
> Do you still need me to run the board with some of the extra debugging
> enabled, or should I wait for the next round of patches?
> 

You might as well wait until I resubmit. There are going to be some significant
changes.




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