[U-Boot] core ticks/timer code

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <200903310725.20652.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > Agreed (except that we probably  cannot  completely  throw  away  the
> > tick;  IIRC  there  are  cases  in early startup when nothing else is
> > available yet).
> 
> hrm, i can see that.  but you agree that most use of ticks in common code can 
> be converted to get_timer() ?  on Blackfin systems (and it isnt alone going by 

Yes, of course I do.

> a grep), the ticks interface simply returns get_timer(0), so clearly we should 
> be able to convert common code to all use get_timer(0).  that'd leave the 
> ticks interface as optional ... for the systems that need early time sources, 
> they can implement/use it as they need without bringing down everyone else.
>
> i wouldnt mind starting a patch series for post 2009.05 to clean this up ...

Excellent. Thanks in advance.

For BF or for all architectures?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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