[U-Boot] [PATCH 04/10] dm: timer: Support 64-bit counter

[Bin Meng]

Hi Thomas,

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Thomas Chou <thomas at wytron.com.tw> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> On 2015年11月05日 22:02, Bin Meng wrote:
>>
>> There are timers with a 64-bit counter value but current timer
>> uclass driver assumes a 32-bit one. Introduce a device tree
>> property "counter-64bit", and modify timer_get_count() in the
>> timer uclass driver to handle the 32-bit/64-bit conversion
>> automatically.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>> ---
>
>
> Thanks a lot. I tested patches [1-4] on nios2 boards with "ut time" and
> "sleep". It works fine.
>
> I would suggest that we do not need the additional "counter-64bit" property
> by requiring the timer always return 64 bits count. We can provide an inline
> func to do the 32/64 conversion for all 32 bits timers.
>

Do you mean we move the following codes:

+               /* increment tbh if tbl has rolled over */
+               if (now < gd->timebase_l)
+                       gd->timebase_h++;
+               gd->timebase_l = now;
+               *count = ((u64)gd->timebase_h << 32) | gd->timebase_l;

to an inline function, to have 32-bit timer driver to call this inline
function in their get_count() op?

This looks duplicate to me.

Regards,
Bin