[PATCH 11/11] ARM: dts: Add PCLK to the Aspeed watchdogs

Andrew Jeffery andrew at aj.id.au
Wed Oct 11 00:14:54 PDT 2017


On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 08:32 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 20:43 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > This adds the PCLK clock to the Aspeed watchdog blocks.
> > > I am not directly familiar with the Aspeed clocking, but
> > > since the IP is derived from Faraday FTWDT010 it probably
> > > has the ability to run the watchdog on the PCLK if
> > > desired
> > 
> > This is true for the AST2400, but not the AST2500 where the only option
> > is EXTCLK (1MHz).
> 
> The IP block/cell certainly has a PCLK even if it cannot be used
> to drive the watchdog timer. It is necessary to interface the
> SoC interconnect.

Hah, yep, brain-fade.

Cheers,

Andrew

> 
> > > > +                           clocks = <&clk_apb>;
> > > 
> > > +                             clock-names = "PCLK";
> > 
> > Given the comment above, shouldn't we be doing something like the
> > following instead for each of the watchdogs?
> > 
> > +                               faraday,use-extclk;
> > +                               clock-names = "EXTCLK";
> 
> So that will be added too, later, when there is a 1MHz clock
> to reference in the device tree. I guess after Joel's patches.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
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