Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] ARM: dts: Add an armv7 timer for zx297520v3

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-04-22T07:10:30Z

On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 11:23:13PM +0300, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> The stock kernel does not use this timer, but it seems to work fine. The
> board has other board-specific timers that would need a driver and I see
> no reason to bother with them since the arm standard timer works.
>
> The caveat is the non-standard GIC setup needed to handle the timer's
> level-low PPI. This is the responsibility of the boot loader and
> documented in Documentation/arch/arm/zte/zx297520v3.rst.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/zte/zx297520v3.dtsi | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++

This must be squashed. You add new SoC - that's one commit. One logical
change. Adding "not working SoC" and then "let's fix it" are not two
separate tasks.

Best regards,
Krzysztof