[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 3/9] arm: add support for arch timer

[Andrianov, Vitaly]

Hi Masahiro,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-
> bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Masahiro Yamada
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 9:46 PM
> To: Karicheri, Muralidharan
> Cc: Rini, Tom; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 3/9] arm: add support for arch timer
> 
> Hi Murali,
> 
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:44:23 -0400
> Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2 at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya at ti.com>
> >
> > This patch add basic support for the architecture timer found on
> > recent
> > ARMv7 based SoCs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya at ti.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2 at ti.com>
> > Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/lib/Makefile     |    1 +
> >  arch/arm/lib/arch_timer.c |   58
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> 
> 
> I am not familiar with this timer, but your commit description implies
> it is specific to ARMv7.
> 
> If so, it looks like it should go to arch/arm/cpu/armv7/ .
> Is this right?

This is for arch timer implemented in ARM Cortex-A15 which is ARMv7.
I believe the same arch timer is in ARMv8. So, it is not specific to
ARMv7 only. The commit description mentioned only ARMv7 because the
driver was designed and tested on ARMv7.    

> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada
> 
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Best Regards,
Vitaly Andrianov