[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Change timebase divisor to be defined per processor

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Apr 22 17:42:27 CEST 2011


On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:26:55 -0500
Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >> Introduce new CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV on 85xx platforms because
> >> different SoCs have different divisor amounts.  All the PQ3 parts are
> >> /8, the P4080/P4080 is /16, and P2040/P3041/P5020 are /32.
> > 
> > Shouldn't there also be a README update to document this option?
> 
> I think its self evident what it is.

Without commenting on whether this one is or isn't self-explanatory, there
are enough CONFIG symbols that are used without documentation that are not
self-explanatory (sometimes the purpose is clear, but the exact semantics
aren't), that it's better to just document all of them.

-Scott



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