This erratum describes a bug in logic outside the core, so MIDR can't be used to identify its presence, and reading an SoC-specific revision register from common arch timer code would be awkward. So, describe it in the device tree. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt index e774128..ef5fbe9 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arch_timer.txt @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ to deliver its interrupts via SPIs. - always-on : a boolean property. If present, the timer is powered through an always-on power domain, therefore it never loses context. +- fsl,erratum-a008585 : A boolean property. Indicates the presence of + QorIQ erratum A-008585, which says that reading the counter is + unreliable unless the same value is returned by back-to-back reads. + This also affects writes to the tval register, due to the implicit + counter read. + ** Optional properties: - arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured : Firmware does not initialize -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
