Re: Move designware timer OF glue into drivers/clocksource

[Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On Tue 2012-07-10 13:07:36, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >  		timer0: timer@ffc08000 {
> > -				compatible = "socfpga,sp-timer";
> > +				compatible = "snps,dw-apb-timer-sp";
> 
> apb timer. That rings a bell. Does that have anything to do with
> 
> arch/x86/kernel/apb_timer.c ? That's from one of the intel mobile
> chips and might be the very same IP block.

As far as I can tell, drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer.c is already
used on Intel MID platform... What I'm moving is device tree glue,
that is unsuitable for x86 plaforms with classical BIOS. (And AFAICT,
intel MID also uses something different).

> > -obj-y					:= common.o time.o
> > +obj-y					:= common.o ../../../drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.o
> 
> Urgh! Why can't we just compile it from drivers/clocksource/Makefile
> ?

It will cost me a new config option, but I can do that, yes.

Thanks,
									Pavel
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