From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] clocksource/drivers/mtk_systimer: Add support for Mediatek SoCs Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:39:32 +0200 Message-ID: <2a40ec95-7352-f0c4-b394-d7b689de98ec@linaro.org> References: <1530086039-3763-1-git-send-email-stanley.chu@mediatek.com> <1530086039-3763-3-git-send-email-stanley.chu@mediatek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1530086039-3763-3-git-send-email-stanley.chu@mediatek.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stanley Chu , Matthias Brugger , Thomas Gleixner , Rob Herring Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, wsd_upstream@mediatek.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 27/06/2018 09:53, Stanley Chu wrote: > This patch adds a new clock event for the timer > found on the Mediatek SoCs. > > The Mediatek System Timer has several 32-bit timers. > Only one timer is used by this driver as a clock event > supporting oneshot events. > > The System Timer can be run with two clocks. A 13 MHz system > clock and the RTC clock running at 32 KHz. This implementation > uses the system clock with no clock source divider. Recent platforms have the arch_arm_timer and it will be always selected. What is the benefit of adding this timer ? -- Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog