[PATCH 6/7] arm: mediatek: enable gpt6 on boot up to make arch timer working

Matthias Brugger
2014-10-30T09:01:19Z

2014-10-30 4:23 GMT+01:00 Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 11:28 +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> 2014-10-24 15:53 GMT+02:00 Yingjoe Chen <srv_yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>:
>> >
>> > Hi Matthias,
>> >
>> > I didn't saw this in v3.18-rc1, are you working on version 2 of this?
>> > mt8135 and m8127 also need this fixup and we need this to have SMP
>> > working.
>>
>> I had a discussion with Mark Rutland from ARM on this [0].
>> At that point he convinced me that this was not critical.
>>
>> If we need this for SMP, things really change here I think.
>
> We have some driver now, and we started to implement SMP enable method
> internally. I think it is reasonable to discuss this now.
> We could include this patch in our SMP patch series. Do you prefer we do
> this?

Alright. Please remind that we don't need to set the cntfreq register
here but define the clock frequency in the dts.

Thanks,
Matthias

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