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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clocksource: arch_timer: Allow the device tree to specify the physical timer
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:07:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140911170716.GA6158@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=FV=WECbZ4L=-C+F9K6kfiPUi7ar3a4a7Upq2TqDYYPGoOrA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:59:53PM +0100, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > I'd say `Only supported for ARM' to better match what we've done. Probably
> > also worth mentioning that this relies on the hypervisor/firmware having set
> > CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN and CNTHCTL.EL1PCTEN (but assumedly made a mess of CNTVOFF
> > ;) if you want to boot on the non-secure side (e.g. as a guest).
> 
> Note that the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN and CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN are
> both 1 in my version of the ARM ARM.  On the other hand CNTVOFF is
> documented to have an UNKNOWN reset value.  If only ARM had guaranteed
> that CNTVOFF started out as 0 (which seems like it would have been
> sensible) we wouldn't be in this mess.  :-/

I'm afraid we went the opposite way -- in ARMv8 there are a tiny handful
of EL3 registers that are well-defined out of reset, then the rest of the
system is UNKNOWN. The hardware guys prefer that and it can also be useful
for very low-level debugging (system crashes, do a reset, read out the
state).

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-11 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-11 16:16 [PATCH v2] clocksource: arch_timer: Allow the device tree to specify the physical timer Doug Anderson
     [not found] ` <1410452204-7277-1-git-send-email-dianders-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-11 16:47   ` Will Deacon
     [not found]     ` <20140911164710.GW6158-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-11 16:59       ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-11 17:07         ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-09-11 17:14           ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-11 17:00     ` Marc Zyngier
     [not found]       ` <5411D528.4050605-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-11 17:11         ` Doug Anderson
     [not found]           ` <CAD=FV=XMmizxJFPj0FEhJ7Gk4ZcQaUJDxf_Qq5kGKSvxDFVmzg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-11 17:22             ` Marc Zyngier
     [not found]               ` <5411DA67.2040402-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-11 17:29                 ` Doug Anderson
     [not found]                   ` <CAD=FV=UQfo4J3P4wGjOhQZQ5KXKgYAdjPsi1ykKZxQw-FwJz8w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-11 17:43                     ` Marc Zyngier
     [not found]                       ` <5411DF5D.8060906-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-11 23:55                         ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-11 23:56                         ` Stephen Boyd
     [not found]                           ` <54123697.4070804-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-12  0:01                             ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-12 10:20                               ` Marc Zyngier
2014-09-12  0:14                           ` Sonny Rao
2014-09-12  1:17                             ` Stephen Boyd
2014-09-12  3:25                               ` Sonny Rao
2014-09-12 11:43                         ` Christopher Covington
2014-09-12 12:14                           ` Marc Zyngier
     [not found]                             ` <5412E3BB.9030800-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-12 18:59                               ` Stephen Boyd
     [not found]                                 ` <54134291.3040700-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-15 11:10                                   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-09-15 20:33                                     ` Stephen Boyd
2014-09-15 21:47                                       ` Sonny Rao
2014-09-15 21:49                                         ` Stephen Boyd
2014-09-15 21:52                                           ` Sonny Rao
     [not found]                                             ` <CAPz6YkWbxiGHO8RK==HbQ3P22amZ9sDKpGew=a2U8gO7soQCDg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-15 22:04                                               ` Sonny Rao
2014-09-15 22:51                                                 ` Christopher Covington
     [not found]                                                   ` <54176D62.9010600-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-16  0:24                                                     ` Sonny Rao
2014-09-16 10:42                                                   ` Catalin Marinas
     [not found]                                                     ` <20140916104242.GC27273-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-16 11:22                                                       ` Christopher Covington
     [not found]                                       ` <54174CFF.7050504-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-16 11:03                                         ` Catalin Marinas

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