[U-Boot] arm926ejs, timer:

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4D01EA19.8070200@emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
> Sorry for the noise, but...
> 
> >>> just looked in the timer implementation for arm926ejs based boards, and
> >>> found that there is just the at91, davinci, nomadik timer implementation
> >>> fixed in actual u-boot. I want to cleanup this timers too, but
> >>> there are kirkwood, mb86r0x, orion5x, spear, versatile archs which use
> >>> a lastdec var, which is not in global_data.h defined. So the question
> >>> is should we add a lastdec to global_data.h or is it Ok, if I use
> >>> lastinc for cleaning up?
> >> I would suggest to take tbu, tbl, lastinc out of the AT91FAMILY #ifdef
> >> to the generic part.
> > 
> > maybe "unify" last{inc,dec} into last_hw ? Because they are supposedly the
> > last (hardware) decrementer/incrementer values from the previous call.
> > 
> define 4 u32's in the generic part:
> 
> u32	timer_use1;
> u32	timer_use2;
> u32	timer_use3;
> u32	timer_use4;

NAK.  Please let's agree on common names.  Eventually we will even
come up with a common implementation later (with just arch-specific
"accessor" routines).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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