[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 6/6] rockchip: rk3368: remove setup of secure timer from TPL/SPL
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Tue Aug 1 09:48:21 UTC 2017
On 28 July 2017 at 10:31, Philipp Tomsich
<philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
> When using DM timers w/ the timer0 block within the RK3368, we no
> longer depend on the ARMv8 generic timer counting. This allows us to
> drop the secure timer initialisation from the TPL and SPL stages.
>
> The secure timer will later be set up by ATF, which starts the ARMv8
> generic timer. Thus, there will be a dependency from Linux to the ATF
> through the ARMv8 generic timer... this seems reasonable, as Linux
> will require the ATF (and PSCI) to start up the secondary cores anyway
> (in other words: we don't add any new dependencies).
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
>
> ---
>
> arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3368-board-spl.c | 20 --------------------
> arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3368-board-tpl.c | 19 -------------------
> 2 files changed, 39 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
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