On Tuesday 10 March 2015 16:28:44 Maxime Coquelin wrote: > 2015-03-10 16:00 GMT+01:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>: > > On Friday 20 February 2015 19:01:04 Maxime Coquelin wrote: > >> Some platforms need to initialize the reset controller before the timers. > >> > >> This patch introduces a reset_controller_of_init() function that can be > >> called before the timers intialization. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > > > > Not sure about this. It seems like the cleanest approach if we get > > a lot of these, but then again it is probably very rare, and I'd > > like to avoid adding such infrastructure if it's just for one > > SoC. Could we add a hack in the machine initialization instead? > > Sun6i also need to initialize the reset controller early. Today, they > hack the machine initialization. > With two SoCs having the same need, what should we do? Good question, I'd like to hear some other opinions on this first. > > I think ideally this would be done in the boot loader before we > > even start Linux, but I don't know if that's possible for you. > > From what I understand, the only constraint is to perform it after the > clock is enabled. > So this should be possible to do it in the bootloader, but it means > also adding timers clocks ungating in the bootloader. Ungating the timer clock input seems like a reasonable thing to do for the bootloader, I think a lot of platforms rely on this elsewhere (but enough of them don't, which is why we have the early clk init). Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
