On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 09:31 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 25/06/2018 11:07, Stanley Chu wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 09:34 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > >> On 25/06/2018 09:09, Stanley Chu wrote: > >>> This patch adds a new driver for system timer on the Mediatek SoCs. > >> > >> Please elaborate why we need yet another timer. > >> > >> Is this timer present on all Mediatek platform ? Does it always co-exist > >> with the existing one ? > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Hi Daniel, > > > > This new "system timer" only exists on recent Mediatek platforms, > > for example, MT6765. We will upstream driver first, and then update > > device tree on MT6765 later. > > > > System timer is designed and optimized as a SoC timer for > > tick-broadcasting. Besides timer IP has simpler register manipulation > > and friendly low-power design. > > > > There is no plan to remove existed "General Purpose Timer" now. > > It is unclear what "General Purpose Timer" and "System Timer" differ > except they are different timers running on different platforms. > > Merge them into a single timer-mediatek.c file. > Hi Daniel, Yes, they are different timers running on different platforms. "System Timer" can replace "General Purpose Timer" in recent platforms, for example, MT6765. Thanks. Stanley Chu -- 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
