[U-Boot] [PATCH] armv7, timer: move static data to global_data struct

[Andreas Bießmann]

Dear Heiko Schocher,

Am 30.11.2010 um 08:02 schrieb Heiko Schocher:

> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h
> index ada3fbb..16dc27c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h
> @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ typedef	struct	global_data {
> 	unsigned long	tbu;
> 	unsigned long long	timer_reset_value;
> #endif
> +#if defined(CONFIG_OMAP) || defined(CONFIG_MX51)
> +	unsigned long timestamp;
> +	unsigned long lastinc;
> +#endif
> +#if defined(CONFIG_S5P)
> +	unsigned long count_value;
> +	/* Internal tick units */
> +	unsigned long long timestamp;	/* Monotonic incrementing timer */
> +	unsigned long lastdec;		/* Last decremneter snapshot */
> +#endif
> 	unsigned long	relocaddr;	/* Start address of U-Boot in RAM */
> 	phys_size_t	ram_size;	/* RAM size */
> 	unsigned long	mon_len;	/* monitor len */

can't this generalized in some way?
AT91 still has some values like that in global_data, yesterday David Müller sent a patch for S3C24X0 to add some values like that to global_data ... we have a lot of arm cores out there, should each get his own style of global_data?

regards

Andreas Bießmann