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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] RISC-V: Support per-hart timebase-frequency
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From:   Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
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Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2018 23:47:13 -0700
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On 8/6/18 1:34 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 05:33:57 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 03:19:49PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
>>> On 8/2/18 4:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
>>>>
>>>> Follow the updated DT specs and read the timebase-frequency from the
>>>> CPU 0 node.
>>>>
>>>
>>> However, the DT in the HighFive Unleashed has the entry at the wrong place.
>>>
>>> Even the example in github also at wrong place.
>>> https://github.com/riscv/riscv-device-tree-doc/pull/8/commits/2461d481329c55005fcbe684f0d6bdb3b7f0a432
>>>
>>> DT should be consistent between Documentation and the one in the hardware.
>>> I can fix them in bbl & submit a bbl patch. But I am not sure if that's an
>>> acceptable way to do it.
>>
>> I'll need to have comments from Palmer and/or someone else at SiFive
>> here.  Personally I really don't care where we document the timebase,
>> as this patch supports both locations anywhere.  For now I'll just update
>> the commit log to state that more explicitly.
> 
> You're welcome to submit a BBL patch to make this all match, but from my
> understanding of the device tree spec putting timebase-frequency in either
> place should be legal so it's not a critical fix.  That said, it's better to
> have them match than not match.
> 

ok. I will add it my TODO list as a low priority task. Following DT 
entries can be fixed for now.

1. timebase-frequency
2. next-level-cache

Regards,
Atish