mvebu - switch to orion-timer

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Mon Aug 29 14:50:35 CEST 2022


On Monday 29 August 2022 14:07:29 Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Michael, Pali, Tony & all,
> 
> On 24.08.22 09:35, Michael Walle wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > On 24.08.22 00:33, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > Hello Stefan! Now when U-Boot contains new orion-timer.c driver, which
> > > > Michael wrote, I think that it mvebu platform should switch to use it.
> > > > Because build process for armada boards prints deprecation warning that
> > > > new timer is not being used. Could you look at it, if it is possible to
> > > > do global switch for mach-mvebu and mach-kirkwood? I think it does not
> > > > make sense to do per-board switching as it is de-facto platform related
> > > > code.
> > > 
> > > Yes, I also though about this.
> > > 
> > > But...
> > > 
> > > In Linux we have 2 different timer clocksource drivers for Orion /
> > > Kirkwood and Armada XP / 370 etc:
> > > 
> > > drivers/clocksource/timer-orion.c
> > > drivers/clocksource/timer-armada-370-xp.c
> > > 
> > > I did not check, if and why this is necessary to handle those chips
> > > via different drivers yet. Perhaps later this week. Or someone of
> > > you beats me with this. ;)
> > 
> > One thing which is definitely missing is
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/u-boot/v2022.10-rc3/source/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/timer.c#L33
> > 
> > I didn't bother to handle that one. And of course all the compatibles are
> > missing.
> 
> Thanks. Just a short status update:
> 
> I'm currently busy with this CONFIG_TIMER migration for MVEBU /
> Kirkwood. Looks good so far - I can only test on Armada XP right now.
> So I need some extensive testing on all other kind of Marvell 32bit
> users / developers. I expect to send the first draft patchset in a few
> days.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan

I will test it on Turris Omnia - A385.


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