[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] dm: x86: Allow TSC timer to be used before DM is ready

[Simon Glass]

Hi Bin,

On 22 July 2017 at 22:36, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> With bootstage we need access to the timer before driver model is set up.
>> To handle this, put the required state in global_data and provide a new
>> function to set up the device, separate from the driver's probe() method.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>> ---
>>
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/global_data.h |  1 +
>>  drivers/timer/tsc_timer.c          | 18 +++++++++++++-----
>>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>
> Please check my comments against [1/5] in this series. We should be
> able to do something with existing CONFIG_TIMER_EARLY. Updating TSC
> timer can only solve this specific timer issue.

Yes I agree. I did wonder about that at the time, but didn't investigate it.

I'll take a look at this next week when I have access to a link.

Regards,
Simon