[PATCH v5 5/8] ARM: dts: Add an armv7 timer for zx297520v3
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzk at kernel.org
Wed Apr 22 00:10:27 PDT 2026
On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 11:23:13PM +0300, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> The stock kernel does not use this timer, but it seems to work fine. The
> board has other board-specific timers that would need a driver and I see
> no reason to bother with them since the arm standard timer works.
>
> The caveat is the non-standard GIC setup needed to handle the timer's
> level-low PPI. This is the responsibility of the boot loader and
> documented in Documentation/arch/arm/zte/zx297520v3.rst.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/zte/zx297520v3.dtsi | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
This must be squashed. You add new SoC - that's one commit. One logical
change. Adding "not working SoC" and then "let's fix it" are not two
separate tasks.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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