[U-Boot-Users] PPC CLKIN

[Greg Davis]

Yes. Your suggestion worked fine. Thanks.

Greg

On Mar 8, 2006, at 5:49 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message
> <1628E43D99629C46988BE46087A3FBB94B48E7 at ep-01.EmbeddedPlanet.local>
> you wrote:
>> We currently have several PQII and PQIII PrPMC boards that 
>> dynamically support PCI bus speeds between 25 MHz and 133 MHz. These 
>> boards provide a CPLD register that gives PCI frequency. I would like

>> to take advantage of this register, if possible, within u-boot rather

>> than using a #define such as CONFIG_83XX_CLKIN, CONFIG_8260_CLKIN, or

>> CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ for the input clock frequency to the processor. 
>> Is there a suggested method of doing this?
>
> Yes: don't change the code if there is no reeal need for it.
>
>> For testing I have implemented the following in get_sys_info() in 
>> speed.c for an MPC8560 board:
>>
>> #if !defined (CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ)
>> 	sysInfo->freqSystemBus = plat_ratio * get_sys_clk(); #else
>> 	sysInfo->freqSystemBus = plat_ratio * CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ;
#endif
>
> A simple "#define  CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ  get_sys_clk()"  seems  to  be 
> equivalent  without need to change anything. Note that I didn't check 
> all uses of the CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ variable in the code.
>
>> The get_sys_clk() function resides in the board code directory. Would

>> this be an acceptable method? It would minimize any impact to other 
>> existing boards.
>
> What about my suggestion?

This should work.  It is how the CDS platform works.  Take a look at
board/cds/common/cadmus.c and include/configs/*CDS*.h

- kumar