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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 05/24] clocksource: Add a new timer-ingenic driver
To:     Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
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From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:12:28 +0200
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On 25/09/2018 15:38, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> 
> Le 24 sept. 2018 9:14 AM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> a écrit :
>>
>> On 24/09/2018 08:53, Paul Cercueil wrote: 
>>>
>>> Le 24 sept. 2018 07:58, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> a écrit : 
>>>>
>>>> On 24/09/2018 07:49, Paul Cercueil wrote: 
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 24 sept. 2018 07:35, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> a 
>>>>> écrit : 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 24/09/2018 07:24, Paul Cercueil wrote: 
>>>>>>> Hi Daniel, 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Le 24 sept. 2018 05:12, Daniel Lezcano 
>>>>>>> <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> a écrit : 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 21/08/2018 19:16, Paul Cercueil wrote: 
>>>>>>>>> This driver handles the TCU (Timer Counter Unit) present on 
>>>>>>>>> the Ingenic JZ47xx SoCs, and provides the kernel with a 
>>>>>>>>> system timer, and optionally with a clocksource and a 
>>>>>>>>> sched_clock. 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It also provides clocks and interrupt handling to client 
>>>>>>>>> drivers. 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can you provide a much more complete description of the timer 
>>>>>>>> in order to make my life easier for the review of this patch? 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> See patch [03/24], it adds a doc file that describes the 
>>>>>>> hardware. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, I went through but it is incomplete to understand what the 
>>>>>> timer do. I will reverse-engineer the code but it would help if you 
>>>>>> can give the gross approach. Why multiple channels ? mutexes and 
>>>>>> completion ? 
>>>>>
>>>>> Much of the complexity is because of the multi-purpose nature of the 
>>>>> TCU channels. Each one can be used as timer/clocksource, or PWM. 
>>>>>
>>>>> The driver starts by using channels 0 and 1 as system timer and 
>>>>> clocksource, respectively, the other ones being unused for now. Then, 
>>>>> *if* the PWM driver requests one of the channels in use by the 
>>>>> timer/clocksource driver, say channel 0, the timer/clocksource driver 
>>>>> will dynamically reassign the system timer to a free channel, from 
>>>>> channel 0 to e.g. channel 2. Only in that case the completion/mutex 
>>>>> are actually used. 
>>>>
>>>> Why do you need to do this? Can't be the channels dedicated and reserved 
>>>> for clocksource and clockevent? 
>>>
>>> That's what I had in place (ingenic,timer-channel and ingenic,clocksource-channel DT properties), but Rob didn't want any linux-specific properties in the devicetree binding :( 
>>
>> Isn't possible to specify the channel to use in the DT? like renesas16 ? 
> 
> That's what I did in V6 (and before), but Rob did not want me to add properties for Linux-specific concepts such as clocksource.

Hmm, I remember something like that, yes but I did a delete of the
previous version when you posted the v7. Can you give a pointer to its
answer ?


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