On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Wang Dongsheng-B40534 wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:ga...@kernel.crashing.org] >> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 9:14 PM >> To: Wang Dongsheng-B40534 >> Cc: b...@kernel.crashing.org; pau...@samba.org; Wood Scott-B07421; >> linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/fsl: mpic timer driver >> >> >> On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:20 AM, <dongsheng.w...@freescale.com> >> <dongsheng.w...@freescale.com> wrote: >> >>> From: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.w...@freescale.com> >>> >>> Global timers A and B internal to the PIC. The two independent groups >>> of global timer, group A and group B, are identical in their >> functionality. >>> The hardware timer generates an interrupt on every timer cycle. >>> e.g >>> Power management can use the hardware timer to wake up the machine. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.w...@freescale.com> >>> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <le...@freescale.com> >> >> How much of this is FSL specific vs openpic? OpenPIC spec's timer >> support (only a single group). >> > [Wang Dongsheng] Yes, OpenPIC only a single group timer. > FSL: add more register, features and group. > This patch only to support FSL chip. > "mpic_timer.c" -> "fsl_mpic_timer.c" > I will modify the description of the patch. how about?
I'd rather we support both, can we not use the MPIC_FSL flag to deal with FSL specific behavior? - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
