[PATCH 1/3] ARM: OMAP2+: 32k-counter: Use hwmod lookup to check presence of 32k timer

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Wed Apr 4 05:04:09 EDT 2012


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav at ti.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 00:05:38, Hilman, Kevin wrote:
>> "Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > I don't personally like to add features which hardly anybody use and
>> > fundamentally broken with full kernel.
>>
>> Let's keep sane defaults, but not make it unreasonable to tweak eaither.
>>
>> I suggest what has already been mentioned.
>>
>> Register both timers, but have the sync timer have a higher rating.  On
>> AMxxx where there is no sync timer, GPtimer will be used.
>>
>
> This is another good option, I can change the rating of both the timers.
> With below description and given understanding/discussion/usability of both
> the timers, we can reverse the rating,
>
Btw, if we are going with this path, then there won't any need of commandline
option since clock-source can be switched from user space as well.

Regards
santosh



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