[U-Boot] arm926ejs, timer:

[Reinhard Meyer <u-boot@emk-elektronik.de>]

Reinhard Meyer schrieb:
> Dear Heiko Schocher,
>> Hello,
>>
>> 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.

> 
>> Or are there pending patches, which fix this issues for some (all)
>> arm926ejs architectures?
> at91 timer is still not perfect, it will break after 2**64 ticks. That is well
> after the end of the Solar System :)