From: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] arm: kconfig: don't select TWD with local timer for Armada 370/XP
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:46:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FEFAB9.4030503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301212044.41865.arnd@arndb.de>
On 01/21/2013 02:44 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On multiplatform kernels where at least one arch has TWD support, it
>> will be included, and where not, it will not.
>>
>> It doesn't seem logical for a feature descriptor (HAVE_ARM_TWD) to
>> rely on greater knowledge of what platforms may or may not support it.
>> If we had to include every platform in that list it would be unwieldy.
>
> I would expect that all future platforms have ARM_TWD, so the list
> of the platforms that don't is not going to grow much, but the list
> of platforms that do will keep growing.
No, I expect all future platforms will have architected timers. TWD is
pretty much A9 and A5 only I believe. Same with SCU. I've probably
missed some in my list.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-22 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-21 17:53 [PATCH 0/6] arm: mvebu: add support for local timer for Armada 370/XP Gregory CLEMENT
2013-01-21 17:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] arm: mvebu: Add support for local interrupt Gregory CLEMENT
2013-01-21 17:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] clocksource: time-armada-370-xp: add local timer support Gregory CLEMENT
2013-01-21 17:53 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: kconfig: don't select TWD with local timer for Armada 370/XP Gregory CLEMENT
2013-01-21 17:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: mvebu: update defconfig with local timer support Gregory CLEMENT
2013-01-21 17:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm: mvebu: update DT to support local timers Gregory CLEMENT
2013-01-21 17:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] clocksource: update and move armada-370-xp-timer documentation to timer directory Gregory CLEMENT
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2013-01-22 20:46 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2013-01-22 21:19 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: kconfig: don't select TWD with local timer for Armada 370/XP Arnd Bergmann
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