[PATCH 0/7] core, cpu and gated clocks for mvebu

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Nov 15 16:54:25 EST 2012


Dear Andrew Lunn,

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:28:19 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> This patchset combines code from Gregory Clement, Sebastian
> Hesselbarth and myself to implement core clks, cpu clock and gated
> clocks on Marvel MVEBU SoCs.
> 
> The Armada 370/XP core clock code is a refactored version of the
> already submitted and ACKed code from Gregory. It has been made to fit
> inside a framework developed by Sebastian which can handle all MVEBU
> SoCs. The Armarda 370/XP SoCs have more core clocks than the older SoCs, and
> the framework needs to handle this. Rather than specify the clock
> frequencies in DT, a Sample At Reset register is used, which describes
> each core clock frequency.
> 
> Armarda XP is an SMP processor, with each CPU having its own
> clock. Gregories code for this has been taken as is.
> 
> The Armarda 370/XP clock source has been converted to the common clock
> framework.
> 
> Dove, Kirkword, and probably Armarda 370/XP have the ability to gate
> clocks to various blocks. A clk-gate clock is created for each of the
> gateable clocks on Dove and Kirkwood. Armarda 370/XP clock gates are
> currently unimplemented. Dove and Kirkwood board-dt.c and DT
> descriptions are then modified to make use of these clk gates.

I had a quick look and made a few comments, but overall, it looks
really great. I really hope we can get this in 3.8.

Thomas
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