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Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Split out CPUXGPT
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To:     AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
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On 09/03/2023 11:39, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> On MediaTek platforms, CPUXGPT is the source for the AArch64 System
> Timer, read through CNTVCT_EL0.
> 
> The handling for starting this timer ASAP was introduced in commit
> 327e93cf9a59 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Implement CPUXGPT timers")
> which description also contains an important full explanation of the
> reasons why this driver is necessary and cannot be a module.
> 
> In preparation for an eventual conversion of timer-mediatek to a
> platform_driver that would be possibly built as a module, split out
> the CPUXGPT timers driver to a new timer-mediatek-cpux.c driver.
> 
> This commit brings no functional changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> ---

Applied, thanks

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