Re: [PATCH v18 00/15] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer

Mark Rutland
2017-01-13T19:29:21Z

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 01:33:04AM +0800, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
>
> This patchset:
> (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer:
> 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file;
> 2. Add a new enum for spi type;
> 3. Improve printk relevant code;
> 4. Rename some enums and defines;
> 5. Rework PPI determination;
> 6. Rework counter frequency detection;
> 7. Refactor arch_timer_needs_probing, move it into DT init call
> 8. Introduce some new structs and refactor the MMIO timer init code
> for reusing some common code.
>
> (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/arm64/acpi_gtdt.c
> Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer,
> memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer.
> This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers,
> and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them.
>
> (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer
>
> (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timer.
>
> This patchset has been tested on the following platforms with ACPI enabled:
> (1)ARM Foundation v8 model

Once v4.10-rc4 comes out this weekend, could you please rebase and
repost this?

Marc and I will be happy to take a look then.

Thanks,
Mark.