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SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/20] clocksource / acpi: Add macro CLOCKSOURCE_ACPI_DECLARE
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On Wednesday 22 January 2014 11:46:16 Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:08:32AM +0000, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > On 2014-1-17 22:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Friday 17 January 2014, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > >>
> > >> From: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.daniel@samsung.com>
> > >>
> > >> This macro does the same job as CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE. The device
> > >> name from the ACPI timer table is matched with all the registered
> > >> timer controllers and matching initialisation routine is invoked.
> > >
> > > I wouldn't anticipate this infrastructure to be required. Shouldn't all
> > > ARMv8 machines have an architected timer?
> >
> > I not sure of this, could anyone can give some guidance? if only arch
> > timer is available for ARM64, this will make thing very simple.
>
> All ARMv8 systems should have an architected timer.
>
> However, they may also have other timers (e.g. global timers for use
> when CPUs are in low power states and their local architected timers
> aren't active).

But all other timers could be regular platform drivers I suppose. No
need for special infrastructure for those.

Arnd


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