[PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: riscv: Add optional DT property riscv,timer-can-wake-cpu

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Wed Jul 27 05:07:50 PDT 2022


On 27/07/2022 13:43, Anup Patel wrote:
> We add an optional DT property riscv,timer-can-wake-cpu which if present
> in CPU DT node then CPU timer is always powered-on and never loses context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> index d632ac76532e..b60b64b4113a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> @@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ properties:
>        - rv64imac
>        - rv64imafdc
>  
> +  riscv,timer-can-wake-cpu:
> +    type: boolean
> +    description:
> +      If present, the timer interrupt can wake up the CPU from
> +      suspend/idle state.

Isn't this a property of a timer, not CPU? IOW, your timer node should
have "wakeup-source" property.

Now that's actual problem: why the RISC-V timer is bound to "riscv"
compatible, not to dedicated timer node? How is it related to actual CPU
(not SoC)?


Best regards,
Krzysztof



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