Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: virt: Relax arch timer version check during early boot

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On 1/20/20 2:01 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2020-01-20 13:38, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>> Updates to the Generic Timer architecture allow ID_PFR1.GenTimer to
>> have values other than 0 or 1 while still preserving backward
>> compatibility. At the moment, Linux is quite strict in the way it
>> handles this field at early boot and will not configure arch timer if
>> it doesn't find the value 1.
>>
>> Since here use ubfx for arch timer version extraction (hyb-stub build
>> with -march=armv7-a, so it is safe)
>>
>> To help backports (even though the code was correct at the time of writing)
>> Fixes: 8ec58be9f3ff ("ARM: virt: arch_timers: enable access to physical timers")
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Feel free to put it into Russell's patch system.

Patch has been accepted as patch 8955/1

Thanks!

Vladimir

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         M.

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