From: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
To: alison.wang@nxp.com, angelo@kernel-space.org, trini@konsulko.com
Cc: me@ziyao.cc, daniel@0x0f.com, heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com,
sjg@chromium.org, jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw, eleanor15x@gmail.com,
u-boot@lists.denx.de, Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>,
Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 2/8] timer: Add Goldfish timer driver
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 20:18:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260107201838.3448806-3-visitorckw@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260107201838.3448806-1-visitorckw@gmail.com>
Add support for the Goldfish timer driver. This driver utilizes the
Goldfish RTC hardware to provide a nanosecond-resolution timer. This
virtual device is commonly found in QEMU virtual machines (such as the
m68k virt machine) and Android emulators.
The driver implements the standard U-Boot timer UCLASS interface,
exposing a 64-bit monotonically increasing counter with a 1GHz clock
rate derived from the RTC registers.
Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>
Reviewed-by: Yao Zi <me@ziyao.cc>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Angelo Dureghello <angelo@kernel-space.org>
---
Changes in v6:
- Refactor driver to separate device tree reading into .of_to_plat.
- Rename platform data member from 'base' to 'reg' (phys_addr_t).
- Update header includes to follow U-Boot coding style.
MAINTAINERS | 6 +++
drivers/timer/Kconfig | 8 +++
drivers/timer/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/timer/goldfish_timer.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/goldfish_timer.h | 13 +++++
5 files changed, 117 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 drivers/timer/goldfish_timer.c
create mode 100644 include/goldfish_timer.h
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8f884ff495a..efecb213be7 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1266,6 +1266,12 @@ S: Maintained
F: drivers/serial/serial_goldfish.c
F: include/goldfish_tty.h
+GOLDFISH TIMER DRIVER
+M: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
+S: Maintained
+F: drivers/timer/goldfish_timer.c
+F: include/goldfish_timer.h
+
INTERCONNECT:
M: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
S: Maintained
diff --git a/drivers/timer/Kconfig b/drivers/timer/Kconfig
index f9511503b02..a84a0dc0539 100644
--- a/drivers/timer/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/timer/Kconfig
@@ -340,4 +340,12 @@ config STARFIVE_TIMER
Select this to enable support for the timer found on
Starfive SoC.
+config GOLDFISH_TIMER
+ bool "Goldfish Timer support"
+ depends on TIMER
+ help
+ Select this to enable support for the Goldfish Timer.
+ It uses the Goldfish RTC hardware to provide a nanosecond-resolution
+ timer, commonly found in QEMU virt machines.
+
endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/timer/Makefile b/drivers/timer/Makefile
index a72e411fb2f..d8b3f2b65d4 100644
--- a/drivers/timer/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/timer/Makefile
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MCHP_PIT64B_TIMER) += mchp-pit64b-timer.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IMX_GPT_TIMER) += imx-gpt-timer.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XILINX_TIMER) += xilinx-timer.o
obj-$(CONFIG_STARFIVE_TIMER) += starfive-timer.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_GOLDFISH_TIMER) += goldfish_timer.o
diff --git a/drivers/timer/goldfish_timer.c b/drivers/timer/goldfish_timer.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..70673bbd93c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/timer/goldfish_timer.c
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2025, Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * Goldfish Timer driver
+ */
+
+#include <dm.h>
+#include <goldfish_timer.h>
+#include <mapmem.h>
+#include <timer.h>
+#include <asm/io.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+
+struct goldfish_timer_priv {
+ void __iomem *base;
+};
+
+/* Goldfish RTC registers used as Timer */
+#define TIMER_TIME_LOW 0x00
+#define TIMER_TIME_HIGH 0x04
+
+static u64 goldfish_timer_get_count(struct udevice *dev)
+{
+ struct goldfish_timer_priv *priv = dev_get_priv(dev);
+ u32 low, high;
+ u64 time;
+
+ /*
+ * TIMER_TIME_HIGH is only updated when TIMER_TIME_LOW is read.
+ * We must read LOW before HIGH to latch the high 32-bit value
+ * and ensure a consistent 64-bit timestamp.
+ */
+ low = readl(priv->base + TIMER_TIME_LOW);
+ high = readl(priv->base + TIMER_TIME_HIGH);
+
+ time = ((u64)high << 32) | low;
+
+ return time;
+}
+
+static int goldfish_timer_of_to_plat(struct udevice *dev)
+{
+ struct goldfish_timer_plat *plat = dev_get_plat(dev);
+ fdt_addr_t addr;
+
+ addr = dev_read_addr(dev);
+ if (addr != FDT_ADDR_T_NONE)
+ plat->reg = addr;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int goldfish_timer_probe(struct udevice *dev)
+{
+ struct goldfish_timer_plat *plat = dev_get_plat(dev);
+ struct goldfish_timer_priv *priv = dev_get_priv(dev);
+ struct timer_dev_priv *uc_priv = dev_get_uclass_priv(dev);
+
+ if (!plat->reg)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ priv->base = map_sysmem(plat->reg, 0x20);
+
+ /* Goldfish RTC counts in nanoseconds, so the rate is 1GHz */
+ uc_priv->clock_rate = 1000000000;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct timer_ops goldfish_timer_ops = {
+ .get_count = goldfish_timer_get_count,
+};
+
+static const struct udevice_id goldfish_timer_ids[] = {
+ { .compatible = "google,goldfish-rtc" },
+ { }
+};
+
+U_BOOT_DRIVER(goldfish_timer) = {
+ .name = "goldfish_timer",
+ .id = UCLASS_TIMER,
+ .of_match = goldfish_timer_ids,
+ .of_to_plat = goldfish_timer_of_to_plat,
+ .plat_auto = sizeof(struct goldfish_timer_plat),
+ .ops = &goldfish_timer_ops,
+ .probe = goldfish_timer_probe,
+ .priv_auto = sizeof(struct goldfish_timer_priv),
+};
diff --git a/include/goldfish_timer.h b/include/goldfish_timer.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..acd3e460c5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/goldfish_timer.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2025, Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
+ */
+
+#ifndef _GOLDFISH_TIMER_H_
+#define _GOLDFISH_TIMER_H_
+
+struct goldfish_timer_plat {
+ phys_addr_t reg;
+};
+
+#endif /* _GOLDFISH_TIMER_H_ */
--
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-07 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-07 20:18 [PATCH v6 0/8] m68k: Add support for QEMU virt machine Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-07 20:18 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] serial: Add Goldfish TTY driver Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-07 20:18 ` Kuan-Wei Chiu [this message]
2026-01-07 20:18 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] rtc: goldfish: Support platform data for non-DT probing Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-07 20:18 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] sysreset: Add QEMU virtual system controller driver Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-09 11:31 ` Simon Glass
2026-01-30 11:23 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2026-02-02 8:11 ` Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-07 20:18 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] m68k: Add support for M68040 CPU Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-09 11:31 ` Simon Glass
2026-01-24 8:29 ` Angelo Dureghello
2026-01-07 20:18 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] board: Add QEMU m68k virt board support Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-09 11:31 ` Simon Glass
2026-01-07 20:18 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] CI: Add test jobs for QEMU m68k virt machine Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-01-07 20:18 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] MAINTAINERS: Update m68k entry Kuan-Wei Chiu
2026-02-02 23:58 ` [PATCH v6 0/8] m68k: Add support for QEMU virt machine Tom Rini
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