[U-Boot] [PATCH] armv8: Allow SoCs to override the generic timer

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Jul 23 22:54:31 CEST 2015


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 04:56:10PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> 
> Some SoCs come with a custom timer interface, so allow them to use that
> instead.
> 
> swarren notes: I did consider reworking this patch so the Makefile only
> compiles generic_timer.c ifndef CONFIG_SYS_TIMER_COUNTER. However, I can
> foresee a time where generic_timer.c contains both routines to implement
> U-Boot's internal timer, and to perform other operations related to the
> generic timer, such as initializing the CNTFRQ register for a booted OS.
> If that happens, this version of the change will result in simpler future
> patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Warren <twarren at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>



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Tom
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