Re: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: imx: make the imx timer driver implementation independent of SoCs.

[Baruch Siach <baruch-NswTu9S1W3P6gbPvEgmw2w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Shenwei Wang,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:14:41AM -0500, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> There are 4 versions of the timer hardware on Freescale MXC hardware.
> --Version 0: MX1/MXL
> --Version 1: MX21, MX27.
> --Version 2: MX25, MX31, MX35, MX37, MX51, MX6Q
> --Version 3: MX6DL, MX6SX
> 
> This patch has removed the SoC related codes, and implemented the driver
> directly upon the hardware timer IP version.
> 
> The new driver can be installed via device tree or the direct function
> call to mxc_timer_init in order to support imx legacy systems like MX21
> and MX27.
> 
> For the device tree implementation, the driver is compatible with the current
> bindings like "fsl,imx6q-gpt", but for future dts file, the string like
> "fsl,imx-gpt-v2" without SoC information is recommended.

That is not the usual convention for IP block versions.

Please Cc the devicetree list (added).

baruch

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