[PATCH 1/6] ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Enable PWM

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Dec 15 02:01:28 PST 2017


Hi Fabrizio,

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Fabrizio Castro
<fabrizio.castro at bp.renesas.com> wrote:
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Enable PWM
>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Fabrizio Castro
>> <fabrizio.castro at bp.renesas.com> wrote:
>> > RZ/G1 and R-Car platforms have PWM timers. This patch enables PWM support
>> > by default.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro at bp.renesas.com>
>> > Reviewed-by: Biju Das <biju.das at bp.renesas.com>
>>
>> Thanks for your patch!
>
> Thank you for your feedback.
>
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken, there are no current users of this PWM block in the
>> current R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G1 DTS files?
>
> PWM support will be needed very soon as we are going to use pwm3 on the iwg20d platform to control the RGB display backlight.

Good to know, thanks!

> The work to add display support is in progress, I hope it will be ready by next week, would you rather I sent this patch with the series to add display support?

That's up to Simon.  But I guess it doesn't matter much, as defconfig updates
are queued in a separate branch anyway.

You may want to send a similar patch for multi_v7_defconfig.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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