[PATCH v5 2/3] clocksource: keystone: add bindings for keystone timer

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 18:36:29 EST 2014


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk at ti.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/05/2014 07:41 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk at ti.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/05/2014 04:39 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk at ti.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch provides bindings for the 64-bit timer in the KeyStone
>>>>> architecture devices. The timer can be configured as a general-purpose
>>>>> 64-bit
>>>>> timer, dual general-purpose 32-bit timers. When configured as dual
>>>>> 32-bit
>>>>> timers, each half can operate in conjunction (chain mode) or
>>>>> independently
>>>>> (unchained mode) of each other.
>>>>
>>>> This is software configurable or h/w design time configurations?
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>> This is h/w design time configurations
>>
>> Then it seems like the binding should provide for describing those
>> differences either with a property or different compatible strings.
>>
>> Rob
>
> Oh..sorry, seems I didn't catch, this is configurable by software.
> These configurations are like modes in which timer can work
> and they are not different hardware IPs. It depends on driver in
> which mode it should work.

In that case,

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>



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