Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 02/18] dt-bindings: timer: sp804: add timer-width property | From | Robin Murphy <> | Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:06:10 +0000 |
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Hi Rob,
On 17/03/16 17:09, Rob Herring wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:24:04AM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote: >> Add timer-width optional property to specify a different vendor >> specific timer counter bit-width. >> >> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> >> --- >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,sp804.txt | 2 ++ >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,sp804.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,sp804.txt >> index 5cd8eee7..141e143 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,sp804.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/arm,sp804.txt >> @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ Optional properties: >> - arm,sp804-has-irq = <#>: In the case of only 1 timer irq line connected, this >> specifies if the irq connection is for timer 1 or timer 2. A value of 1 >> or 2 should be used. >> +- arm,timer-width: Should contain the width in number of bits of the counter, >> + is considered by default 32 but can be changed for vendor variants. > > That would not be an SP804 nor would the vendor be ARM in that case. So > add a new compatible string for the vendor that decided to hack up ARM's > IP block.
By all accounts this is some ancient reference design[1] which later evolved _into_ the SP804, so that vendor would probably still be ARM ;)
A separate compatible string would indeed make more sense, though. Both semantically and in terms of letting the driver account for the differences automatically.
Robin.
[1]:http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0170a/I350250.html
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