[U-Boot] [PATCH 09/12] sunxi: H5: add COUNTER_FREQUENCY

[André Przywara]

Hi,

On 16/01/17 08:01, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 01:30:01AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> For the arch timer to work properly, we need to setup the CNTFRQ
>> register, which is only possible in EL3.
>> Define the arch timer frequency in sun8i.h as well, so that ARMv8's
>> start.S can program the register correctly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  include/configs/sun8i.h | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/configs/sun8i.h b/include/configs/sun8i.h
>> index a4c3fb6..cbb7239 100644
>> --- a/include/configs/sun8i.h
>> +++ b/include/configs/sun8i.h
>> @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
>>   * A23 specific configuration
>>   */
>>  
>> +#define COUNTER_FREQUENCY		CONFIG_TIMER_CLK_FREQ
>> +
> 
> Why not convert the armv8 code to use CONFIG_TIMER_CLK_FREQ, or armv7
> to use COUNTER_FREQUENCY?
> 
> The both options seem redundant.

Good point, they indeed are.
So I will drop this patch here and instead have a new one to rename the
v7 users over to use COUNTER_FREQUENCY.
I chose COUNTER_FREQUENCY because the other symbol has less users.

Thanks for the idea!

Cheers,
Andre.