Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support

2012-12-13 Thread Tabi Timur-B04825
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Wang Dongsheng wrote: > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_timer.h > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_timer.h > new file mode 100644 > index 000..2428972 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_timer.h > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ > +/* > + * arch/p

[PATCH] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support

2012-10-03 Thread Wang Dongsheng
The MPIC global timer is a hardware timer inside the Freescale PIC comply to Open-PIC standard. When the timer is timeout of the specified interval, the hardware timer generates an interrupt. The driver currently is only tested on fsl chip, but it can potentially support other global timers complyi