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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] arm: kconfig: don't select TWD with local timer for Armada 370/XP
On 01/21/2013 02:44 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

>> On multiplatform kernels where at least one arch has TWD support, it
>> will be included, and where not, it will not.
>>
>> It doesn't seem logical for a feature descriptor (HAVE_ARM_TWD) to
>> rely on greater knowledge of what platforms may or may not support it.
>> If we had to include every platform in that list it would be unwieldy.
>
> I would expect that all future platforms have ARM_TWD, so the list
> of the platforms that don't is not going to grow much, but the list
> of platforms that do will keep growing.

No, I expect all future platforms will have architected timers. TWD is
pretty much A9 and A5 only I believe. Same with SCU. I've probably
missed some in my list.

Rob



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