[PATCH-V2 0/4] ARM: OMAP2+: am33xx: Add clocktree and hwmod data

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Jun 5 04:26:29 EDT 2012


* Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav at ti.com> [120605 01:27]:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 13:29:52, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Vaibhav Hiremath <hvaibhav at ti.com> [120529 03:01]:
> > > This patch adds complete clockctree and hwmod data for the
> > > AM33XX family of devices.
> > > 
> > > This patch-series is cleaned up further from Paul's cleanup
> > > activity on AM33xx clocktree, where all leaf nodes have been
> > > removed and now modules enable/disable is controlled only
> > > using hwmod framework interface.
> > > 
> > > There are certain modules, like clkdiv32k, debugss, etc..., for
> > > which we still doesn't have hwmod_data present, so in order to
> > > disable these modules during boot time, we still have to maintain
> > > clk node for them. Comment has been added to highlight this, and
> > > in the future we will cleanup this.
> > > As far as, CLKDIV32K module, in reality is not module but still
> > > we have MODULEMODE to control it, so we may have to keep this node
> > > alone in the clocktree.
> > 
> > Considering that we have the RFC patches available for common
> > clk fwk, we should probably avoid the extra churn and have this
> > use the common clk fwk instead. Of course that is assuming the
> > common clk fwk patches will be mergeable soonish.
> > 
> 
> Tony,
> 
> I am not quite sure how much time it will take to merge common clock changes 
> from Rajendra, since it is still in RFC stage and may take couple merge 
> windows. I would recommend to merge clock-tree and hwmod patches atleast to 
> the linux-next, so that it gets validated for some time and we atleast would 
> be able to boot the BeagleBone (community board) from linux-next/master.
> People can start further development using this on BeagleBone platform.
> 
> Based on common-clock migration activity on OMAP, we can certainly make 
> decision on pushing it to Mainline (Linus's) tree. And also I will start 
> basing AM33XX clocktree on Rajendra's patches, so that it will get merged at 
> the same time.

OK that sounds fair to me. Let's see what Paul and Rajendra say, it's
really up to them to make the call. We need minimize the extra load for
Paul and Rajendra here as it's already a big effort.

Regards,

Tony



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