Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Apr 2016 13:21:00 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 02/16] arm64: dts: add sp804 timer node for Hi6220 | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 09:23:42PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Guodong Xu <guodong.xu@linaro.org> wrote:
>> By chance the code in the driver will allow just one clock and >> will then assume that both the bus to the timer and the timer >> itself is clocked from the same clock. But I highly doubt that this >> is the case. > > This patch has been sent out for review previously [1]; So I refered > other platforms and changed to only enable apb bus clock due I have > not found timer enabling bits in Hi6220's spec.
This is not about enabling/disabling the clock(s) to the timer. It doesn't matter if these clocks are always on.
It is about determining the *frequency* of the timers.
It is vital that the timer driver get the right frequency of the clock to the block from the clock implementation, and I do not think it is the same as the "apb_pclk".
The thing is that of course "any frequency" will work but what you will notice is that the timer runs very weirdly compared to wall-clock time unless the right clock yielding the right frequency has been specified here.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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