[PATCH V2 2/2] rtc: Introduce ti-k3-rtc

Andrew Davis afd at ti.com
Tue May 10 17:52:57 PDT 2022


On 5/10/22 7:25 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Introduce support for Texas Instruments Real Time Clock controller on
> newer K3 family of SoCs such as AM62x.
> 
> The hardware module that is being supported is the "digital only"
> version which does'nt have capability of external wakeup sources and
> external power backup. However, for many practical applications, this
> should suffice as RTC is operational across low power sequences.
> 
> The hardware block by itself is split into two distinct domains
> internally to further reduce the power consumption with the actual
> counter block and comparators clocked off a 32k clock source (which
> based on SoC integration can be sourced by an external crystal) and an
> register interface block which is driven by the bus clock. While optimal
> from power perspective, it does create some complicated synchronizations
> and sequences that one must be wary of in the driver handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
> ---
> Changes since V1:
> (Andrew's comments):
> * Moved entirely to regmap fields - except for setting time, which I
>    have documented as to why regmap is necessary
> * Dropped the redundant MOD_ALIAS

Isn't regmap fun :)

Acked-by: Andrew Davis <afd at ti.com>



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