[U-Boot] arm926ejs, timer:

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4D05687F.9090100 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
>
> > NAK.  Please let's agree on common names.  Eventually we will even
> > come up with a common implementation later (with just arch-specific
> > "accessor" routines).
> 
> Replace "arch" by "SoC" here! ARM itself does not have a timer (in contrast to
> powerpc where tbu,tbl is part of the architecture) !
> 
> Then its a bad idea to take tbu,tbl out of the #ifdef AT91FAMILY part
> when all other ARM timer implementations do not use tbu.
> 
> Its simple to NAK attempts to come up with "common" names that are NOT
> misnomers on some implementations... tbu, tbl are certainly misnomers on all
> non AT91 timer implementations...

Maybe we should lean back and have a look at what Linux is doing in
this area?

The recent patch series "64-bit sched_clock" on the lak ML seems to
fit pretty well :-)

See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/99740


Can we copy from Linux?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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